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-</div>
-<h1>Overview of SimpleTest</h1>
-<div class="content">
- <p>
-<a class="target" name="summary">
-<h2>What is SimpleTest?</h2>
-</a>
-</p>
- <p>
- The heart of SimpleTest is a testing framework built around
- test case classes.
- These are written as extensions of base test case classes,
- each extended with methods that actually contain test code.
- Top level test scripts then invoke the <span class="new_code">run()</span>
- methods on every one of these test cases in order.
- Each test method is written to invoke various assertions that
- the developer expects to be true such as
- <span class="new_code">assertEqual()</span>.
- If the expectation is correct, then a successful result is dispatched to the
- observing test reporter, but any failure triggers an alert
- and a description of the mismatch.
- </p>
- <p>
- A <a href="unit_test_documentation.html">test case</a> looks like this...
-<pre>
-<?php
-class <strong>MyTestCase</strong> extends UnitTestCase {
- <strong>
- function testLog() {
- $log = &new Log('my.log');
- $log->message('Hello');
- $this->assertTrue(file_exists('my.log'));
- }</strong>
-}
-?>
-</pre>
- </p>
- <p>
- These tools are designed for the developer.
- Tests are written in the PHP language itself more or less
- as the application itself is built.
- The advantage of using PHP itself as the testing language is that
- there are no new languages to learn, testing can start straight away,
- and the developer can test any part of the code.
- Basically, all parts that can be accessed by the application code can also be
- accessed by the test code if they are in the same language.
- </p>
- <p>
- The simplest type of test case is the
- <a href="unit_tester_documentation.html">UnitTestCase</a>.
- This class of test case includes standard tests for equality,
- references and pattern matching.
- All these test the typical expectations of what you would
- expect the result of a function or method to be.
- This is by far the most common type of test in the daily
- routine of development, making up about 95% of test cases.
- </p>
- <p>
- The top level task of a web application though is not to
- produce correct output from its methods and objects, but
- to generate web pages.
- The <a href="web_tester_documentation.html">WebTestCase</a> class tests web
- pages.
- It simulates a web browser requesting a page, complete with
- cookies, proxies, secure connections, authentication, forms, frames and most
- navigation elements.
- With this type of test case, the developer can assert that
- information is present in the page and that forms and
- sessions are handled correctly.
- </p>
- <p>
- A <a href="web_tester_documentation.html">WebTestCase</a> looks like this...
-<pre>
-<?php
-class <strong>MySiteTest</strong> extends WebTestCase {
- <strong>
- function testHomePage() {
- $this->get('http://www.my-site.com/index.php');
- $this->assertTitle('My Home Page');
- $this->clickLink('Contact');
- $this->assertTitle('Contact me');
- $this->assertWantedPattern('/Email me at/');
- }</strong>
-}
-?>
-</pre>
- </p>
-
- <p>
-<a class="target" name="features">
-<h2>Feature list</h2>
-</a>
-</p>
- <p>
- The following is a very rough outline of past and future features
- and their expected point of release.
- I am afraid it is liable to change without warning as meeting the
- milestones rather depends on time available.
- Green stuff has been coded, but not necessarily released yet.
- If you have a pressing need for a green but unreleased feature
- then you should check-out the code from sourceforge CVS directly.
- A released feature is marked as "Done".
- <table>
-<thead>
- <tr>
-<th>Feature</th><th>Description</th><th>Release</th>
-</tr>
- </thead>
-<tbody>
-<tr>
- <td>Unit test case</td>
- <td>Core test case class and assertions</td>
- <td style="color: green;">Done</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Html display</td>
- <td>Simplest possible display</td>
- <td style="color: green;">Done</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Autoloading of test cases</td>
- <td>
- Reading a file with test cases and loading them into a
- group test automatically
- </td>
- <td style="color: green;">Done</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Mock objects code generator</td>
- <td>
- Objects capable of simulating other objects removing
- test dependencies
- </td>
- <td style="color: green;">Done</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Server stubs</td>
- <td>
- Mocks without expectations to be used outside of test cases,
- e.g. for prototyping
- </td>
- <td style="color: green;">Done</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Integration of other unit testers</td>
- <td>
- The ability to read and simulate test cases from PHPUnit
- and PEAR::PhpUnit
- </td>
- <td style="color: green;">Done</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Web test case</td>
- <td>Basic pattern matching of fetched pages</td>
- <td style="color: green;">Done</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>HTML parsing of pages</td>
- <td>Allows link following and title tag matching</td>
- <td style="color: green;">Done</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Partial mocks</td>
- <td>
- Mocking parts of a class for testing less than a class
- or for complex simulations
- </td>
- <td style="color: green;">Done</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Web cookie handling</td>
- <td>Correct handling of cookies when fetching pages</td>
- <td style="color: green;">Done</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Following redirects</td>
- <td>Page fetching automatically follows 300 redirects</td>
- <td style="color: green;">Done</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Form parsing</td>
- <td>Ability to submit simple forms and read default form values</td>
- <td style="color: green;">Done</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Command line interface</td>
- <td>Test display without the need of a web browser</td>
- <td style="color: green;">Done</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Exposure of expectation classes</td>
- <td>Can create precise tests with mocks as well as test cases</td>
- <td style="color: green;">Done</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>XML output and parsing</td>
- <td>
- Allows multi host testing and the integration of acceptance
- testing extensions
- </td>
- <td style="color: green;">Done</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Command line test case</td>
- <td>Allows testing of utilities and file handling</td>
- <td style="color: green;">Done</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>PHP Documentor compatibility</td>
- <td>Fully generated class level documentation</td>
- <td style="color: green;">Done</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Browser interface</td>
- <td>
- Exposure of lower level web browser interface for more
- detailed test cases
- </td>
- <td style="color: green;">Done</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>HTTP authentication</td>
- <td>
- Fetching protected web pages with basic authentication
- only
- </td>
- <td style="color: green;">Done</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Browser navigation buttons</td>
- <td>Back, forward and retry</td>
- <td style="color: green;">Done</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>SSL support</td>
- <td>Can connect to https: pages</td>
- <td style="color: green;">Done</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Proxy support</td>
- <td>Can connect via. common proxies</td>
- <td style="color: green;">Done</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Frames support</td>
- <td>Handling of frames in web test cases</td>
- <td style="color: green;">Done</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Improved display</td>
- <td>Better web GUI with tree display of test cases</td>
- <td style="color: red;">1.1</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Localisation</td>
- <td>Messages abstracted and code generated from XML</td>
- <td style="color: red;">1.1</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>File upload testing</td>
- <td>Can simulate the input type file tag</td>
- <td style="color: red;">1.1</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Mocking interfaces</td>
- <td>Can generate mock objects to interfaces as well as classes</td>
- <td style="color: red;">2.0</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Testing exceptions</td>
- <td>Similar to testing PHP errors</td>
- <td style="color: red;">2.0</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>XPath searching of elements</td>
- <td>Can make use of HTML tidy for faster and more flexible content matching</td>
- <td style="color: red;">2.0</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
-</table>
- PHP5 migraton will start straight after the version 1.1 series,
- whereupon PHP4 will no longer be supported.
- SimpleTest is currently compatible with PHP5, but will not
- make use of all of the new features until version 2.
- </p>
-
- <p>
-<a class="target" name="resources">
-<h2>Web resources for testing</h2>
-</a>
-</p>
- <p>
- Process is at least as important as tools.
- The type of process that makes the heaviest use of a developer's
- testing tool is of course
- <a href="http://www.extremeprogramming.org/">Extreme Programming</a>.
- This is one of the
- <a href="http://www.agilealliance.com/articles/index">Agile Methodologies</a>
- which combine various practices to "flatten the cost curve" of software development.
- More extreme still is <a href="http://www.testdriven.com/modules/news/">Test Driven Development</a>,
- where you very strictly adhere to the rule of no coding until you have a test.
- If you're more of a planner or believe that experience trumps evolution,
- you may prefer the
- <a href="http://www.therationaledge.com/content/dec_01/f_spiritOfTheRUP_pk.html">RUP</a> approach.
- I haven't tried it, but even I can see that you will need test tools (see figure 9).
- </p>
- <p>
- Most unit testers clone <a href="http://www.junit.org/">JUnit</a> to some degree,
- as far as the interface at least. There is a wealth of information on the
- JUnit site including the
- <a href="http://junit.sourceforge.net/doc/faq/faq.htm">FAQ</a>
- which contains plenty of general advice on testing.
- Once you get bitten by the bug you will certainly appreciate the phrase
- <a href="http://junit.sourceforge.net/doc/testinfected/testing.htm">test infected</a>
- coined by Eric Gamma.
- If you are still reviewing which unit tester to use the main choices
- are <a href="http://phpunit.sourceforge.net/">PHPUnit</a>
- and <a href="http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.php.phpunit.php">Pear PHP::PHPUnit</a>.
- They currently lack a lot of features found in
- <a href="http://www.lastcraft.com/simple_test.php">SimpleTest</a>, but the PEAR
- version at least has been upgraded for PHP5 and is recommended if you are porting
- existing <a href="http://www.junit.org/">JUnit</a> test cases.
- </p>
- <p>
- Library writers don't seem to ship tests with their code very often
- which is a shame.
- Library code that includes tests can be more safely refactored and
- the test code can act as additional documentation in a fairly standard
- form.
- This can save trawling the source code for clues when problems occour,
- especially when upgrading such a library.
- Libraries using SimpleTest for their unit testing include
- <a href="http://wact.sourceforge.net/">WACT</a> and
- <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/htmlsax">PEAR::XML_HTMLSax</a>.
- </p>
- <p>
- There is currently a sad lack of material on mock objects, which is a shame
- as unit testing without them is a lot more work.
- The <a href="http://www.sidewize.com/company/mockobjects.pdf">original mock objects paper</a>
- is very Java focused, but still worth a read.
- As a new technology there are plenty of discussions and debate on how to use mocks,
- often on Wikis such as
- <a href="http://xpdeveloper.com/cgi-bin/oldwiki.cgi?MockObjects">Extreme Tuesday</a>
- or <a href="http://www.mockobjects.com/wiki/MocksObjectsPaper">www.mockobjects.com</a>
- or <a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MockObject">the original C2 Wiki</a>.
- Injecting mocks into a class is the main area of debate for which this
- <a href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-mocktest.html">paper on IBM</a>
- makes a good starting point.
- </p>
- <p>
- There are plenty of web testing tools, but most are written in Java and
- tutorials and advice are rather thin on the ground.
- The only hope is to look at the documentation for
- <a href="http://httpunit.sourceforge.net/">HTTPUnit</a>,
- <a href="http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/">HTMLUnit</a>
- or <a href="http://jwebunit.sourceforge.net/">JWebUnit</a> and hope for clues.
- There are some XML driven test frameworks, but again most
- require Java to run.
- As SimpleTest does not support JavaScript you would probably
- have to look at these tools anyway if you have highly dynamic
- pages.
- </p>
-
- </div>
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