Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) e31db928b5
MDL-80844 phpunit: Only some tests can use the debugging sink
The only tests that have COMPLETE* support for the debugging sink
are the advanced_testcase and the database_driver ones (store and
report). So we must ensure that the rest of tests don't use the
debugging sink at all.

Right now we are using it for storing, but later there is not
reporting, so any debugging happening within non advanced tests
is not detected.

This commit just ensures that we stop making that storing for
non advanced/database_driver tests. Nothing more, nothing less.

* Note that we have had to add a few missing bits to the
database_driver testcase because it was not 100% complete. Now
it behaves 100% the same than the advanced_testcase one regarding
the debugging sink.
2024-02-12 13:03:06 +01:00
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PHPUnit testing support in Moodle

Documentation

Composer installation

Composer is a dependency manager for PHP projects. It installs PHP libraries into /vendor/ subdirectory inside your moodle dirroot.

  1. install Composer - http://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md
  2. install PHUnit and dependencies - go to your Moodle dirroot and execute php composer.phar install

Configure your server

You need to create a new dataroot directory and specify a separate database prefix for the test environment, see config-dist.php for more information.

  • add $CFG->phpunit_prefix = 'phpu_'; to your config.php file
  • and $CFG->phpunit_dataroot = '/path/to/phpunitdataroot'; to your config.php file

Initialise the test environment

Before first execution and after every upgrade the PHPUnit test environment needs to be initialised, this command also builds the phpunit.xml configuration files.

  • execute php admin/tool/phpunit/cli/init.php

Execute tests

  • execute vendor/bin/phpunit from dirroot directory
  • you can execute a single test case class using class name followed by path to test file vendor/bin/phpunit lib/tests/phpunit_test.php
  • it is also possible to create custom configuration files in xml format and use vendor/bin/phpunit -c mytestsuites.xml

How to add more tests?

  1. create tests/ directory in your add-on
  2. add test file, for example local/mytest/tests/my_test.php file with my_test class that extends basic_testcase or advanced_testcase
  3. set the test class namespace to that of the class being tested
  4. add some test_*() methods
  5. execute your new test case vendor/bin/phpunit local/mytest/tests/my_test.php
  6. execute php admin/tool/phpunit/cli/init.php to get the plugin tests included in main phpunit.xml configuration file

Windows support

  • use \ instead of / in paths in examples above