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Learning Yii Testing

Learning Yii Testing

By : Pescarin
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Learning Yii Testing

Learning Yii Testing

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By: Pescarin
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Overview of this book

Developers who have a solid pre-existing knowledge of Yii's core concepts will find this book an ideal introduction to learning to write tests using Yii 2's tools. You'll learn to create faster and more reliable applications with less time and effort.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. The Testing Mindset
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1. The Testing Mindset
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Understanding the importance of testing
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Involving project management
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Obtaining the testing mindset
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Summary
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2. Tooling up for Testing
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2. Tooling up for Testing
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Downloading and installing Yii 2
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Environment and workflow
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Introducing Composer
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Finding your way around Yii 2
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Structure of the default web application
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Defining our working strategy
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Introducing testing for our purposes
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3. Entering Codeception
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3. Entering Codeception
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Getting started with Codeception
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Installing Codeception in Yii 2
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Interacting with Codeception
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4. Isolated Component Testing with PHPUnit
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4. Isolated Component Testing with PHPUnit
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Understanding the work to be done
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Using the User model
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Implementing the first unit test
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Component testing of the model
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Implementing the ActiveRecord class and its methods
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Seeing tests pass
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5. Summoning the Test Doubles
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5. Summoning the Test Doubles
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Dealing with external dependencies
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Isolating components with stubs
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Listening for calls with an observer
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Writing maintainable unit tests
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6. Testing the API – PHPBrowser to the Rescue
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6. Testing the API – PHPBrowser to the Rescue
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Functional tests in Yii 2
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Functional tests for REST interfaces
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Creating a RESTful web service with Yii 2
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7. Having Fun Doing Browser Testing
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7. Having Fun Doing Browser Testing
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Introducing Selenium WebDriver
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Creating acceptance tests
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8. Analyzing Testing Information
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8. Analyzing Testing Information
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Improving the quality of your tests
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Improving our code with the aid of additional tools
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9. Eliminating Stress with the Help of Automation
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9. Eliminating Stress with the Help of Automation
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Automating the build process
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Creating the required build files
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Configuring the Jenkins build
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Going forward
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Index
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Index

Implementing the first unit test

Yii provides an empty UserTest class for us, so we're going to start working from there. Head over to tests/codeception/unit/models/ and open the UserTest.php file.

So now our question is: what are we going to implement at this point? Well, the answer will be quite simple, once we've understood what the aim of the unit tests is.

Unit tests, as well as functional and acceptance tests, are a black box testing system: The tests will simply use the interface provided by the object and will make sure that the outputs are as expected. Since the implementation doesn't count if this changes slightly, or even radically, the tests should still pass assuming the interface remained the same.

White box testing, which is provided by code coverage, will instead ensure that we have covered all the possible branches of our code. We will discuss this further in Chapter 8, Analyzing Testing Information.

Tip

Unit tests also provide support for use cases that will...

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