The Problem
To improve my quality of code, I've decided to try to learn how to test my code using Unit Testing instead of my mediocre-at-best testing solutions.
I decided to install PHPUnit using composer for a personal library that allows me to achieve common database functions. At first I didn't have a configuration file for PHPUnit and when I ran commands like:
$ phpunit tests/GeneralStringFunctions/GeneralStringFunctionsTest
Please note that this is a terminal command, so I didn't include the .php
extension. The GeneralStringFunctionsTest referred to above is actually a GeneralStringFunctionsTest.php
file.
The output is what I expected:
Time: 31 ms, Memory: 2.75Mb
OK (1 test, 1 assertion)
I then tried to use a configuration file to automatically load the test suite instead of having to manually type in the file every time. I created a file called phpunit.xml
in my root directory, and entered the following into the file: http://pastebin.com/0j0L4WBD:
<?xml version = "1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<phpunit>
<testsuites>
<testsuite name="Tests">
<directory>tests</directory>
</testsuite>
</testsuites>
</phpunit>
Now, when I run the command:
phpunit
I get the following output:
PHPUnit 4.5.0 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.
Configuration read from /Users/muyiwa/Projects/DatabaseHelper/phpunit.xml
Time: 16 ms, Memory: 1.50Mb
No tests executed!
In case it's helpful, my directory structure is as follows:
src - Top level directory (with all my source code)
tests - Top level directory (with all my tests, structured the same as my src folder)
vendor - Composer third party files
I also have the composer json and lock file, as well as the phpunit xml file in the top level as files.
Things I've Tried
- Changing the directory in
phpunit.xml
totests/GeneralStringFunctions
- Changing the directory in
phpunit.xml
to./tests
- Moving the
phpunit.xml
file to thetests
directory and then changing the directory to be./
instead oftests
. - Adding a suffix attribute to the directory tag in
phpunit.xml
to specify "Tests" as the explicit suffix.