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“Web interface” to PHPUnit tests?
Are there any PHP unit testing systems that have a browser-based graphical interface to run the tests in (similar to this : http://view.jquery.com/tags/1.3.2/test/)?
All the unit test options I have looked at allow you to run them from the command line but have not seen any (or could not find documentation on how to) that allow you to somehow run them from the browser. I ask because I don't have access to the command line on the server I would need to run unit tests from.
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In the end I decided to stick with PHPUnit. SimpleTest does have what I was looking for but PHPUnit is the defacto standard in PHP unit testing. I end up switching IDE from PhpED to PhpStorm and PhpStorm has a nice feature of being about to display PHPUnit test results that run on a remote server like ReSharper does for C#/Visual Studio.
SimpleTest does that:
http://www.simpletest.org/en/first_test_tutorial.html
I haven't tested it, but maybe you should try this:
http://mattmueller.me/blog/phpunit-test-report-unit-testing-in-the-browser
This sounds a bit difficult, since the browser is not able to run php natively, I would guess that there would be a php page that would trigger the running of the tests and return an html with the results.
I would suggest you run your tests locally and if you want to get even higher fidelity setup a server/virtual machine that very closely resembles the setup you have in your production server, but that grant's you access to the console and use it as your continuos integration server.
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I'm trying to find specific information on how to setup Selenium with PHP bindings in a 'client-server' type of setup. I'm not even sure if what I want is possible, but I will try to do my best to describe the objective of what I am trying to achieve.
I do QA on a Web development project, where we are working with distributed team members. We need automated front end testing, and have decided that (due to a number of factors) Selenium makes the best candidate for the job.
Our team is specialized in PHP, so it makes sense to use Selenium with PHP bindings.
My biggest challenge is:
1) How do I install those PHP bindings?
2) How do I create and execute a Selenium script in PHP? This one might seem obvious, but I need to know if I need to create some sort of 'project' in PHP, or whether this requires different steps. Manuals are very clear and detailed when it concerns the default JAVA bindings, but hopelessly lacking on the PHP bindings.
3) How do I do all this, while wanting to invoke a test from a client, but having it executed by a 'server/VM'? (Keeping in mind that if the possibility were there, I would also like to be able to create tests on the server, that can execute/invoke testing activities on the desktop of the client.)
4) How do I setup a server that meets all requirements to run Selenium Server with PHP bindings?
The objective is to be able to initially create a VM (probably a Vagrant box) that would contain Selenium Server (and if needed other components) with the actual test scripts, which can be shared among team members.
This VM should both be able to execute headless tests, but ideally should also be able to drive tests on the host (if at all possible).
Technically it should support the scenario where QA finds an issue in the product, and should be able to just specify the required script to reproduce it. The developer that has the task to fix the issue should only have to run the script on his machine to actually reproduce the found error.
Eventually we would want to migrate the VM to an actual server, hence the reason we want to set it up like this from the start. This will keep things more simple once we are ready to move to a physical server.
I've been looking all over the internet for detailed documentation, but in just about any documentation many assumptions are made about already configured and set up environments. I really need a step by step explanation of how to set things up.
PHPUnit seems a bit of a weird choice to pair with Selenium, since they both cover completely different areas of testing. I have seen (again incomplete) instructions on the PHPUnit site, but that seems very clunky and our development team is not very keen on this setup.
We have people suggesting Jenkins, but I personally do not see how Jenkins would eliminate the normal setup of Selenium, which one has to go through from the start anyway.
I already have Selenium Server running as a service in a VM, I just need to know what else I need, and how I need to set it up, how to configure it. how to make things communicate, etc.
Any help/ideas would be highly appreciated.
To get this running locally, follow the instructions here:
https://github.com/facebook/php-webdriver#getting-started
Here is a sample PHP webdriver script that you can use. It will open firefox, take you to google's page and submit a search query:
// you'll need to modify this path so it points to the composer autoloader
require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
/**
* since I'm running the selenium jar locally, this is all I need.
* I just run it in the background and my php scripts connect to it and
* the tests
*/
$host = 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub';
$driver = RemoteWebDriver::create($host, DesiredCapabilities::firefox());
$driver->get('http://google.com');
$element = $driver->findElement(WebDriverBy::name('q'));
$element->sendKeys('Cheese');
$element->submit();
Is this the sort of detail you're looking for?
I have a test suite for my cakephp web app using the cakephp phpunit wrapper provided in 2.x. I would love to merge my test suite into production and be able to test periodically in production via a test database. My issue is as followed:
CakePHP uses a file called test.php to run the test suite and index.php to run the site. I want to lock access to my test suite behind our administrative login, because I don't want anyone to be able to run my test suite on our site just by navigating to www.myapp.com/test.php
I cannot find any information about how to do this. Its possible that no one is doing this because this is a bad strategy that I have propose. If that is the case, could someone please direct me to a better cakephp testing strategy. Sorry, I'm new to building tests.
Thank you to anyone that can help.
Don't use the web test suite but use the command line instead. See "Running tests from the command line".
cake test
Also running tests on a production system might not be a good idea either as it can put some load on the server and the site might respond very slow while the tests run.
If you run the tests via command line you can use the command "nice" and set how much CPU load the command you're going to execute is allowed to cause.
Here we set up a server that we run right next to production called development. These two servers are exact matches (I hope...) and we run our test suite from there. I still run them through the browser, but I agree that the command line works as describe by #burzum. Testing on live is a bad idea. It could mess things up and is not worth the risk for us.
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.
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