Re: Re: [PHPUnit] testing protected functions

On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 11:40 +0200, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Ron Rademaker schrieb: > > Is it somehow possible to test protected functions with PHPUnit2? > > No. LOL, simple answer to a simple question? Ron, when doing unit tests, half the point is that you only test your public functions. The way that I do it, is to write the tests first, and when the pass, ship the code. Basically you should have a bunch of tests for your public API written, running constantly on a cron. You then start writing the public functions and get them to use private and protected functions as they *need* to. Once your public API passes all tests, it works, so you ship it. Who cares how your private/protected methods work? as long as they work! I would recommend reading up a bit on TDD then asking this question again... --Paul