I want to get code coverage for a web site.
I need to do manual test instead of writing code.
The source code of the web site and xdebug, phpunit are on a linux server.now I start apache and open the web site.
I just don't know how to get the coverage of my manual test.
what I expect is this:
Make some config on server
Open my web site and do many manual test
Use some method to get the code coverage
Dose phpunit + xdebug can do this?
I need a report, html is good.
PS. I am a newer... my English and skill is not very well... so Please be patient, Thanks very much
Simply follow all steps in the PHPUnit Manual, Code-Coverage Analysis.
If you want to do code coverage with manual fronted tests. Hava a look at Selenium IDE together with PHP Unit.
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When I run my PHPUnit tests, Xdebug generates a nice code coverage report which shows me exactly how many times each line of code was executed in each of my PHP files.
I want to get the same report for my web site under, say, a week of normal use, so that I can find lines of PHP on my site that might not be used any more. Rather than unit tests running my PHP code, it would be the web server, but I should be able to get the same report, right?
How do I set up Xdebug to collect data and generate a code coverage report on a live site?
I'll answer my own question. Xdebug provides a xdebug_start_code_coverage() call to start collecting code coverage information, and a xdebug_get_code_coverage() call to retrieve information about what code was covered. This is easily applicable to unit testing, because you're generally only concerned with what code was covered by the run of a sequence of tests in a controlled situation. (Turn on coverage, run the tests, then you've got the coverage results.) But for arbitrary hits on a web server application, you'd probably need to start code coverage in the preDispatch and then have the postDispatch write the stats to a database (or store them in some other way) so that later you could collate the results into a report. That's not handled by Xdebug.
Xdebug can collect profiling information in cachegrind format, so I'll see if I can use that to help find what code hasn't been called.
I came across this thread on SO which talks about PHP code coverage tools - Code Coverage tools for PHP
I have never worked on PHP and have been writing Selenium UI tests using java against an application which has been written in PHP.
While going through the thread I mentioned above I felt (I might be wrong) that those PHP code coverage tools are to be used when there are unit tests written in PHP Unit and one wants to find how well Unit tests cover the application.
I am looking for a solution where I execute my Selenium tests which are written and java and there would be some hook in PHP application code base which gives some sort of report about application code base which was executed and one which was not.
Is it possible to do this?
Just add an auto-prepend script which calls xdebug_start_code_coverage() and registers a shutdown function which logs the output of xdebug_get_code_coverage()
Then analyse your data later.
For the past while I've been using phpdoc, phpunit (with xdebug for code coverage generation) and pdepend to produce documentation and code metrics. I can't help but think that things look a bit disjointed. Ideally I'd like to integrate the code coverage reports, test results and metrics together in one place — with the phpdoc output. I'm not using any CI system.
Is there anything that can help me achieve what I want to do or do I basically need to start hacking away at phpdoc and/or smarty templates?
I don't think there is a tool for combining phpdoc and the phpunit code coverage.
For the other tools you can check out "phpcb" - The PHP Code Browser.
It will combine the result from "PHP Code Sniffer", "PHP Mess Detector" and PHPUnits "CRAP" index by giving you a source code browser where you can look at the code an all the errors in one place.
Screenshots from a sample project:
any good open source/commercial PHP testing tools available??
I don't know exactly what do you want to test but here are some tools which help during development:
PHPUnit for unit tests
CodeSniffer for coding standards
PHP Mess Detector for code quality
For testing a web application within your web browser automatically try Selenium.
I can also recommend FirePHP with will enable you to debug your code using the Firebug plugin for Firefox.
A list of PHP Performance Test Tools in this link http://scriptime.blogspot.in/2014/07/performance-test-tools.html
Check out PHPUnit:
http://www.phpunit.de/
One especially handy tool to debug is xdebug. Install through PECL. Integrated with your IDE you'll be able to interactively step through code. Without the IDE and it'll prettify your errors and help you test them.
For automatically testing the app itself, Selenium seems to be the best choice. Note that I don't use it, but it will automatically simulate going to a page, filling in data on a form, etc. It's basically a way to automate users' activity in a browser.
The other suggestions are all apt as well.
To test the code you should write unit tests. This requires two tools, what you need is a debugger (xdebug or zend debugger) and phpunit. They can be written in any editor. If you haven't done this before here is an intro article.
http://devzone.zend.com/article/2772
To test the output of the code (HTML,CSS,JS) you should use a different tool. A GUI testing tool is what you use for this job. Here is a list of these tools. Selenium and Selenium based tools is probably the way to go, but the best decision depends on the company and lack thereof.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GUI_testing_tools
Do you mean a site where you can run PHP code in order to test it? Like localhost?
OK, I'll give you an answer without the smarm :-).
Here, get started with XAMPP http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html. I don't know of any in-browser PHP testing methods, and I can (off the top of my head) think of several ways that a good coder might exploit a site that uses eval() to run user-submitted code. They'd basically be giving anybody free range to run code on their server. But look...get started on XAMPP and there you can start testing PHP scripts without even needing an internet connection. Also if you're interested in a good PHP beginner's guide, see here:
http://www.tuxradar.com/practicalphp
Not sure if this is for debugging or for testing but i found WAMP to be a good alternative to XAMP. Thats what i use for testing
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