I am currently creating an automated test website where all codeception test logs can be shown. My server runs codeception through cron but the user should be able to run the test manually. My question is can I use codeception class in a php webpage without executing the commandline version? If possible anyone have an idea how?
Yes you can, it is actually also quite simple. Codeception uses the symfony console component for their command line tool. Take a look at the \Codeception\Command\Run::execute() method on how they do it. It can be a bit overwhelming at first glance, but in the end it boils down to this piece of code:
$this->codecept = new Codecept($userOptions);
if ($suite and $test) {
$this->codecept->run($suite, $test);
}
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I need to make a tool to Browser test my production system. I have read up all about Laravel Dusk and it seems like a perfect tool. However, I need to run tests automatically via schedule and have a dashboard with the results.
I can easily run the command php artisan dusk from the code using the Scheduler, however, how can I get the results? Is there a better option than simply parsing the Console Output from that command? Ideally I would have a way of getting the status of each test (whether it passed or failed) to be able to log, process and display all that information.
The Dusk documentation hasn't got any more information on running the tests programatically, it only has instructions to run via php artisan dusk.
Has anyone encountered this?
Thank you!
The way I have achieved what I needed is to use the command options for dusk/phpunit.
I used --filter=MyTestClass to single out which test I wanted to run, and --log-junit log.log to log the results for that test, which I then parsed via code as well to fetch the results. This allowed me to build a fully custom dashboard that was able to run each test individually, report the results, send notifications etc.
Not the prettiest solution, but it worked well for what I needed. If anyone encounters better way to achieve that (or just use Dusk in general as a browser/scraper outside phpunit) please do post a comment/answer!
My question is quite simple. I'm coming from Python world, where it's very simple to execute Selenium testing code within a program, just writing something like:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.python.org")
driver.close()
When using PHP, things are getting harder: I wrote something like that
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
class MyTest extends PHPUnit_Extensions_Selenium2TestCase {
public function setUp() {
$this->setBrowser('Firefox');
$this->setBrowserUrl('http://www.python.org');
}
public function testToto() {
$this->url('/');
}
}
...which kinda works when I execute phpunit MyTest.php.
But what I would like to do is to instanciate my test class in PHP code, and execute my Selenium commands "programmatically", like:
$myTest = new MyTest();
$myTest->testToto();
And here it sucks :(
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PHPUnit_Extensions_Selenium2TestCase_Exception' with message 'There is currently no active session to execute the 'url' command.
So is there a way to execute Selenium code directly from PHP script without executing command line things with phpunit?
Edit: What am I trying to achieve? My project is to build a testing application which must be able to launch tests within a UI built by a end user thanks to a user friendly drag and drop builder (the user chooses which test he wants to execute first, then another, and so on). So I would like to avid ececuting phpunit commands with a ugly PHP exec: to me, the best option is to launch test case methods programmatically!
I think the pain comes from trying to use the PHPUnit Webdriver integration, without really using PHPUnit.
You can write code like your Python example by using a standalone Webdriver implementation (that does not need PHPUnit). I recommend the one written by Facebook:
https://github.com/facebook/php-webdriver
but there are some more:
http://docs.seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.jsp#php
You can also use these implementations inside PHPUnit tests. I do that as I don't like the PHPUnit Webdriver implementation.
With these it's trivial to write your example in PHP.
Well, a very nice question first of all. The short answer is yes you can, but it's too much pain. PHPUnit is just a modestly complicated, huge, scary and amazing library with a gadzillion of extensions. In the nutshell it reads the configuration, finds the tests, and runs them.
You can put a break point inside your test and trace to the top what it does, what parameters it accepts and literally simulate the whole thing. That would be the "proper" and crazy way, and the most complex too.
The simpler way would be by finding out what the test case class needs in order to run (break point & trace are always your best friends), in this particular case it turned out to be just this:
$myTest = new MyTest();
$myTest->setUp(); // Your setup will always be called prior the test.
$myTest->prepareSession(); // Specific to Selenium test case, called from `runTest` method.
$myTest->testToto();
But, even in PHPUnit_Extensions_Selenium2TestCase there is a lot of stuff that are not publicly accessible and it feels just a strike of luck. But you get the idea. Besides, simply calling a method of a test case class will result in two things: nothing happens, or you get an exception. All the fancy result tracing happens higher in the hierarchy.
I can only guess what you are trying to achieve, but probably if you ask the question about the actual problem we'd be able to help more.
Edit
exec might seem ugly indeed, but it's there for a very good reason: process isolation. There are situations when one piece of the code that is being tested changes the environment and it becomes conflicting with another piece of code, e.g., session-related, sent headers, etc. When you come across one of them, you will be praying on exec.
In your case, the easiest would be to launch the PHPUnit from the command line, but you might need to write a custom formatter to get the data in the necessary format out of it, unless you are happy with the existing ones.
Another option would be to use the the existing client for the WebDriver / Selenium and simply send commands directly to the Selenium server, I assume that's what you really need? You can find out the piece of code responsible for that in the PHPUnit extension or there's another cool project called Behat (and Mink). I believe their client is in the Behat/MinkSelenium2Driver repository. And if you don't like those, I'm sure there are other php wrappers you can find on the github, or can create your own using the existing ones as an example.
PS: Share a link to the project when it's up and running if its public.
I have a Codeigniter framework on place, which I'm building a test framework on top of it.
Once of the features of the test framework is to remotely deploy test suits. Therefore, I'm trying to deploy a Python test suit I wrote from the webpage:
public function deploy_test()
{
if( !$this->input->is_cli_request() ) {
echo json_encode(system("python test_suit.py"));
}
}
from my controller, so, when a test deployed, I want to run it. For proof of concept I did that way. However, the job never get deployed, nor is the command line ever executed.
When I ran that piece of code from the terminal, it works as supposed. What am I missing here?
Thank you
** Its curious to mention when I execute ls -l it works ...
Basically, this is a bad idea - if the host has declined access to executing things on the server (after all, how does it know that your code is not malicious), you really shouldn't try to work around this, at least without speaking to your provider and asking them if they're ok for you to do this!
After all, executing an LS isn't really going to be malicious, but you could try and execute a Python script that 'rm -rf's the server.
Now, you might be able to find a work around, but to my mind, the question is should you? They might interpret this as a hacking attempting.
I am working on a ZF application that needs to run a command line script and then parse the results into something meaningful and return to the user.
I know there are various PHP functions, like exec and system, but I was wondering if there is anything built into Zend Framework that does command line scripting easily.
Even if there isn't a ZF specific function, what is the best function/method to use for running a command line script and then retrieving the results in PHP upon completion of the script.
I would write a Service which uses exec to get what you need. You can add some basic error handling there.
You can start an process under linux with this:
ZendX_Console_Process_Unix
But never tryed it..
We recently needed to do this (we use ZF too), hope this helps: http://www.kintek.com.au/web-design-blog/how-to-run-a-php-script-from-command-line/
Is there a simple "Web interface" to running PHPUnit test suites? i.e. a PHP script that runs the test on the command line, and outputs a nicely formatted HTML result.
I develop web applications, and the day-to-day workflow usually switches between the IDE and the browser. I would like to have the unit testing in the same environment.
I'm looking for something really simple and PHP based - I am planning to get into phpUnderControl (which has the functionality I'm looking for) but not yet.
I recently discovered Visual PHPUnit which looks like a very very nice interface for everyone that doesn't want to run PHPUnit from the command line:
It seems to be the next iteration of #Matt's PHPUnit Test Report
I feel your frustration - I'm a UI guy myself. Looking at the terminal too long makes my head spin. I wrote a quick little application that you might find helpful.
(source: mattmueller.me)
You can find it here: http://mattmueller.me/blog/introducing-phpunit-test-report
Cheers!
Matt
After several hours of researching recently, the best PHPUnit web frontend I have come across was https://github.com/NSinopoli/VisualPHPUnit
You can use phing to run a PHPUnitTask and then convert the output with:
PHPUnitReport - This task transforms PHPUnit xml reports to HTML using XSLT.
Example:
<phpunitreport infile="reports/testsuites.xml"
format="frames"
todir="reports/tests"
styledir="/home/phing/etc"/>
See phpunit --help for the various output formats.
The 2.3 version of PHPUnit had a chapter on this, but it is gone for some time now. You might be able to find an old copy with Google somewhere.
Since you mention this is for phpUnderControl: if you are not fixed on that, consider using Jenkins and http://jenkins-php.org.
On a side note: unless we are talking CI servers, most people I know don't use PHPUnit through a web interface. They either just use the command line or their IDE integration.
You can use Jenkins to run any kind of tasks including PHPUnit tests. It can automatically checkout your app, run the tests, build a HTML report and even email you if the build fails.
Here's the templates you need to setup Jenkins to build a bunch of interesting reports and stats from your project.
If you don't care about reformatting the output and just want to run PHPUnit from a web page, you can do so with some PHP code like this:
<pre>
<?php
$argv[0] = "phpunit.phar";
$argv[1] = '--bootstrap';
$argv[2] = 'src/load.php';
$argv[3] = "tests/MoneyTest";
$_SERVER['argv'] = $argv;
include 'phpunit.phar';
?>
</pre>
The file src/load.php is just a bunch of includes to include the classes. The output then looks like this:
#!/usr/bin/env php
PHPUnit 4.1.2 by Sebastian Bergmann.
........................
Time: 122 ms, Memory: 3.25Mb
OK (24 tests, 43 assertions)
Just ignore that first line and you can see the results.
I'm shocked that PHPUnit does not include a basic way to do this. Some classes may be dependent on the web server. Do we just not test those? Some sites have you upload your files and don't allow command line executions.
I've never seen such a web-interface... But, as you say you are always using your IDE and your webbrowser, why not think the other way ?
i.e. a possible solution would be to launch the unittests from your IDE ;-)
Which means you should be able to click on the failing tests to "jump" to either the test method, or the reason that caused the test to fail, for instance.
In the PHP + PHPUnit world, I know that Zend Studio does that -- yes, it's not free, unfortunatly ;-(
Using Eclipse PDT, a solution would be to register PHPUnit as an external tool (see or instance this blogpost : Using PHPUnit with Eclipse PDT) -- but it's quite not sexy, and you cannot click on the results to jump the the methods/tests...
Another solution would be to develop a plugin to integrate PHPUnit into Eclipse PDT (like it's been done for Zend Studio, I suppose) -- A phpunit4eclipse was created some time ago, but it's just a start, and didn't get much succes, so the author didn't work on it after releasing that...
I found this:
I stumbeld upon a post from Parth Patil, whose solution was to create an xml-report from PHPUnit and then use this xml to create your own report.
I used his solution, made it PHPUnit 3.4 compatible and also added some Reflection to see my testcase doc-comments in the report. (Note: For the refelection i use the Zend_Framework reflection class)
Ok you said you'd prefer an independent IDE solution, but just so you know there is a recent plugin that enables executing PHPUnit simply into Eclipse, and having a nice representation (like in Zend Studio, but for free).
Here is the link, the main developper replies fast to emails too if you have a problem :
http://www.phpsrc.org/wiki/
I personnaly tested some web interface, but I have always been deceived (not really practital and stable). But this is your choice.
jframework also has a nice UI for PHPUnit. It breaks the results, and shows test coverage on all files and each file separately.
It works on both web and cli, with the cli one having the benefit of dumping every test after its done (the web-based one has to wait until everything is over).
You can always use the Maven for PHP from which you can use the surefire reports (mvn site).
More info here: http://www.php-maven.org