"Web interface" to PHPUnit tests? - php

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

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Running PHP Selenium Webdriver tests programmatically, without phpunit command

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.

how to use phpunit and xdebug to get code coverage

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.

Graphical/Browser-Based PHP Unit Testing Suite? [duplicate]

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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.
Update:
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.

Testing Tools for PHP

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

phing and phpUnderControl ... working together

Has anyone got these to work together seemlessly? I have tried, had some success using the plugin at http://phing.info/trac/wiki/Users/Documentation/CruiseControl, but have failed to:
Get the metrics graphs working (nothing appears)
Enable the "PMD" - project mess detection - reports
Are there any other ant-specific commands that must (can) be run in addition to my phing build script?
Also, the front page of the reports section dumps a heap of log information, and I'm trying to get rid of that too.
Cheers for any help ... we are running phing 2.3.0 and phpUnderControl 0.4.7.
Paul
Our application framework makes heavy use of Phing, and we've got that integrated under CI with phpUnderControl. We do have the metrics and PMD working now, and honestly, it was a little bit of an accident that it started working. But we're still missing the code coverage (working on it) and the phpDoc output (working on that too). I'll try to remember to come back and update this when we're done.
I have found that the main reason for the metrics not showing up is an incompatibility with the ez library that phpuc uses for the rendering. You'll get this NullPointerException on the page, right? Then when you try to run a build manually, you'll get this obscure error about index and divide by 0? What's happening is the ez graphics library that ships with phpuc is old, and you have to upgrade it. I hope that's a clue for you. We didn't have trouble with PMD stuff, so I don't know why that wouldn't work for you. If you want to update your question with more specifics, maybe I can elaborate on what's worked for us?
To answer my question, in the end I figured it was easier to just use an ant build script to make everything work.
I think phing is good when starting out, and has an excellent dbdeploy feature (which I use in phpUC), but for getting the metrics and the PHPMD integrated you are better off using ant - the XML is not hard.
Cheers

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