Introduction to PHPUnit unit testing tool for PHP presented by Tushar Joshi, Nagpur @ PHPMeet help in Nagpur on 19th June 2010

1. PHPUnit A developer's perspective By Tushar Joshi, Nagpur Presented at: 19 June 2010, 4pm, PHPMeet Nagpur #ngpphpmeet

3. PHP Developers

4. Knowledge of Object Oriented Programming

6. Discussion about need of unit testing

7. Case for PHPUnit

8. Demonstration of working of PHPUnit (not part of slides but done side by side while presenting)

10. Installation of PHP, PHPUnit, PEAR, Xdebug, NetBeans IDE

11. Configuration of the development environment

12. Detailed usage of PHPUnit, all cases which can be tested

14. There cannot be any bugs now

15. Manager believes the first time Courtesy: Sam Fraser - Smith

17. Never thought that value will be passed to this function

18. Next time manager will be skeptical to believe easily Courtesy: cheerfulmonk

20. To re-test the code after any modifications

23. Learning a tool is a skill building activity

25. You know PHP

27. No need to show test classes if not needed

29. Way to prove your code works in all situations

30. Opportunity to trap hidden bugs before client finds them

31. Life Saver

34. Testing by a tool, with advanced facilities

36. Starting with getBalance method

37. Opportunity to think behavior of getBalance

39. Result Red or Green Sample Test

40. Available Assertions

42. This creates a constraint expectation

43. $this->assertThat checks whether the value is according to the expectation

44. Available Constraints

46. To check whether exception was thrown

48. Sets of parameters for which the function must run correctly

49. Reduces effort for writing multiple test methods

51. $object = $this->getMock('NameOfClass');

52. $object ->expects( invocationExpectation ) ->method( methodExpectation ) [->with( parameterExpectation )] [->will( returnValue Expectation)]

55. $this->equals(val) type of constraints

58. DB testing with DBUnit

59. Mocking Web services

60. Testing for console output