Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) cc1c4de8dc MDL-67673 phpunit: Remove the rerun hint on failed test cases
That custom printer was using some hacks to be able to intercept
configuration switches, reflection and other tricks to be able to
print the:

To re-run:
 vendor/bin/phpunit --verbose "core_setuplib_testcase" lib/tests/setuplib_test.php

line on every failed/exceptional/skipped test. After some internal
discussion it was agreed that the normal phpunit output:

1) core_setuplib_testcase::test_localcachedir
Time is lower that allowed start value
Failed asserting that 1601976686 is equal to 1601976687 or is greater than 1601976687.

/var/www/html/lib/phpunit/classes/advanced_testcase.php:446
/var/www/html/lib/tests/setuplib_test.php:170
/var/www/html/lib/phpunit/classes/advanced_testcase.php:80

has already all the information at hand about how to rerun a test:

- vendor/bin/phpunit lib/tests/setuplib_test.php
- vendor/bin/phpunit --filter core_setuplib_testcase::test_localcachedir
- vendor/bin/phpunit --filter ::test_localcachedir
- vendor/bin/phpunit --testsuite componentname_testsuite
- vendor/bin/phpunit --config <<compoenent directory>>
- use --cache-result to get failed tests rerun with ease.
- ...

So better, let's use standard phpunit output and done. Also, note that,
with the upgrade to phpunit 8.5, the printer was not working correctly
any more, causing some switches, like --verbose ... to be ignored. Sure
it could have been fixed but, as commented above, no real need for all
that "parapheranlia" to print the rerun information.
2020-10-21 12:46:00 +02:00
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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 core_phpunit_basic_testcase 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 local_my_testcase class that extends basic_testcase or advanced_testcase
  3. add some test_*() methods
  4. execute your new test case vendor/bin/phpunit local_my_testcase local/mytest/tests/my_test.php
  5. 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