I have made an application by cakephp.Now I want to test it efficiency.Can any body suggest me which one is the best application for testing php application?JMeter is it the best?
Depends upon what kind of testing you want to carry on.
If you are considering UI testing consider Selenium IDE
http://www.seleniumhq.org/projects/ide/
If you are considering testing your php code consider PHPUnit
http://phpunit.de/manual/3.7/en/
If you are planning load testing consider Jmeter
http://jmeter.apache.org/
Or
http://gatling-tool.org/
Also See this.
Performing a Stress Test on Web Application?
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I'm working on a project that is stuck in php4 and I'm intending to run some UnitTests for some new areas that I'm working on it.
What is the best framework to do UnitTest on PHP4?
Thanks in advance
You can try
1)Simpletest
It is a PHP unit test and web test framework.It has support for SSL, forms, frames, proxies and basic authentication. The idea is that common but fiddly PHP tasks, such as logging into a site, can be tested easily.
2)PHPUnit Automated Unit Testing Framework
It provides a simple framework for creating a test suite to automate testing of functions and classes. PHPUnit stands alone as a good tool for testing classes or a set of functions and will ease your development cycle and help you to avoid endless debug sessions.
I've got a PHP project to test. I've already (almost) finished coding the project and I didn't have any testing plan at the start. Being new to PHP, I thought I'd finish the coding and start testing afterwards. As unit testing needs to be done as you go along, what is my other alternative for a test? I want something like a complete system test rather than unit by unit.
I've got around 30 PHP script files, 5 of which are class scripts.
NB It needs to be a formal way of testing, rather than trying to hack it.
I believe your aim behind the test is more "academic" than practical. So testing by friends doesn't really help much. Having said that you have already completed coding the project so if you wanted to unit test using PHPUnit or SimpleTest you will have to go back and start coding the unit test cases.
I think the best option here would be to create a "formal" test document. There are tons of resources out there for how to do this. Basically it will have:
Url
Action
Expected Result
Observed Result
If your expected and observed results match, then that test case is passed.
You can create as many test cases as you want for your project based on these basic guidelines.
Testing has it's different role in SDLC. There are various aspect on which testing could be done. Like:
Smoke Testing
Functionality Testing
System Testing
Retesting
Regration Testing
Preformance Testing
and many more testing technique are there for testing a web application.
Just upload the project and ask someone to test it.You have to test it or get it tested.There is no other way
You can also run a simple scanner(like burp or acunetix) to test whether website can be hacked or not.
You can use a web app scanner,
There are some F/OSS out there such as;
Skipfish - CLI Windows/Linux
Netsparker Community Edition - Windows - Light version of a commercial scanner
List of web app security scanners - commercial and free
I mostly buil sites in php/joomla/jquery. Someone told me to learn some unit testing system like selenium.
I want to know that , can i use that for php sites or only java based sites.
When i was learning j2ee then i find many testing systems but i don't know those work with php and joomla
Selenium can be used for PHP sites. Easiest path to getting started is (or was at one time, at least) to download the Seleneium IDE plugin for Firefox and use it to build tests. It can then export your tests as code into a number of different languages.
By the way, I don't consider Selenium a unit test tool. For unit testing in PHP, check out something like PHPunit.
I asked a question here on automated deployment of automatically deploying java code.
Our back-end Java API is accessed by a PHP web app. It would be nice to be able to automatically deploy this web app (along with static files like CSS, JS and images) to our web server while performing automatic testing on PHP code. Is there something similar to this for PHP?
I also wonder if as part of this automated testing you can check that each actual page loads without a fatal error. I am sure I read about a google project which allows you to write page tests e.g. click on link a, go to page b etc etc.
Thanks
You may want to look into using Phing for deployment which has features that allow testing with PHPUnit and/or SimpleTest
Maybe this question handling deployment strategies can help you.
Additionally, but maybe gone too far, tools like cruise control may help you to apply continuous integration, too.
PHPUnit with ant was my way to go for automated testing, which could be a vaild option for you, too since you're obviously using some java already :)
Since you're working with Java, you might consider using Hudson (also mentioned in your other question), which has the ability to execute build tasks consisting of several 'steps' One step step could be unit testing your Java App, another unit testing a PHP app, yet another deployinhg Java app, and another deploying a PHP app (and you could add some more ;P )
It has a Maven plugin, so you could actually use your existing Maven scripts.
EDIT: to clarify - I am asking for advice on both unit testing and user interface testing.
Currently, I don't use TDD. While I am developing an application I am constantly testing what I am working on. Testing iteration could be anything from minor function changes to entire models. I try not to code too much before I test. I like instant feedback.
Of course, with experience I can see potential problems or bugs occurring as I'm coding.
BUT, after an application is complete I will usually go through the entire app on the frontend and ensure all functions are working as expected. This means literally everything. Every add/edit/delete, sort, filter, even broken links and such.
This can take a lot of time sometimes but it does ensure my work hardly ever contains bugs after deployment.
However, I'm looking for a more standard solution. What do experienced developers do? Assume for a moment I am a single developer and so do not have a testing department etc
Do you hire beta testers (no good if app is sensitive to public use)?
Is it viable to build a series of 'general' unit tests which can for example test ALL sorting, filter functions. One for testing ALL add/edit/delete functions.
Love to hear your feedback. Will be changing the way I develop based on suggestions.
Of course as David said : Unit-testing for models and helpers, of course.
and I need to add Selenium
Selenium is a robust set of tools that supports rapid development of
test automation for web-based
applications. Selenium provides a rich
set of testing functions specifically
geared to the needs of testing of a
web application. These operations are
highly flexible, allowing many options
for locating UI elements and comparing
expected test results against actual
application behavior.
which is amazing :
watch the 2 min intro
http://seleniumhq.org/movies/intro.mov
How Selenium Works
Testing with PHPUnit and Selenium
Unit-testing for models and helpers, of course.
But you can do unit-testing on "page-requests", as well. See, for example:
Content with Style - Unit testing controllers with Zend Framework
That's a step towards integration testing. But for issues of layout and visual aesthetics, you're pretty much stuck with walking-through each request with your browser.
Usually what you code works is not that the problem, very nice if you also write tests for it. The problem is that you need to test the integration of your changes every time you make commit.
If you like instant feedback,as I do, probably you should have a look at Continuous Integration.
I've started using Hudson as CI server and I am not regretting it!