Re: Re: Automated testing

Tuesday, October 7, 2003, 1:00:06 AM, Stefan Neufeind wrote: > On 6 Oct 2003 at 15:58, Tomas V.V.Cox wrote: >> Keith Edmunds wrote: >> > Has anyone done any work on automated testing of PHP/PEAR >> > applications? It seems much harder to write a test suite for >> > interactive applications than traditional data processing >> > applications, and I'd be interested in hearing about any approaches >> > that have been used. >> > >> >> Currently we're using the php test suite, integrated in the pear >> command as "pear run-tests <file>.phpt". Read more about it at: >> http://qa.php.net/write-test.php > Hmm - has there been a decision for an "official" way to do it? Now I > hear about phpt, several times in the past PHPUnit-tests were > mentioned ... > And what's even more interesting for me: How should I test functions > that don't have real "return values" but modify a state of an object > or of a file? E.g. many functions of class DB or MP3-tagging (ID3) of > a file. Any proposal for unit-tests under those circumstances? PHP Tests doesn't conflict with PHPUnit tests, even more, they are supplementary. PHP Tests compares expected output from the test with the actual output, very simple for creating them and very simple for running them (pear run-tests). We do use PHP tests for PEAR DB and can't see any problem on using them for MP3-tagging. Read the url I posted. -- Tomas V.V.Cox mailto:cox@idecnet.com