Model unit testing

You might have already heard that using "fat models, skinny controllers" is a best practice. One of the main benefits of keeping all your business logic inside your model layer is the ability to develop simpler unit tests for your application. Model classes usually depend only on other models, behaviors, or utility classes (libs), allowing you to quickly start coding your unit tests without a ton of mock object configurations.

CakePHP integrates with PHPUnit and provides several tools to help you build your unit tests:

Base classes
CakeTestCase
ControllerTestCase or you can use PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
Fixture integration
Test datasource configuration
Bake shell to build test files and fixtures

In this recipe, we'll go over most of these, and build a unit test for a CakePHP model.

Getting ready

First, we'll reuse the table named tasks from this chapter or create a new one using the following SQL statement:

CREATE TABLE tasks (
  id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT...

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CakePHP 2 Application Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Watts

CakePHP 2 Application Cookbook

By: Watts

Overview of this book

Model unit testing

Getting ready

CakePHP 2 Application Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Watts

CakePHP 2 Application Cookbook

By: Watts

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