[Wikitech-l] writing phpunit tests for extensions
I had a bit of a documentation challenge approaching the problem of writing phpunit test for extensions, mostly because many of the extensions do this very differently and the manual did not have any recommendations. It appears many extension have custom bootstraping code ( somewhat hacky path discovery and manual loading of core mediawiki files, and don't necessarily register their tests in a consistent way.) I wrote up a short paragraph of what I would recommend here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Unit_testing#Writing_Unit_Test_for_Extensions If that makes sense, I will try and open up some bugs on the extensions with custom bootstraping code, and I would recommend we commit an example test tests/phpunit/suite.extension.xml file for exclusively running extension tests. Eventually it would be ideal to be able to 'just test your extension' from the core bootstraper (ie dynamically generate our suite.xml and namespace the registration of extension tests) ... but for now at least not having to wait for all the core tests as you write you extension tests and some basic documentation on how to do seems like a step forward. --michael ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] writing phpunit tests for extensions
Michael Dale wrote: Eventually it would be ideal to be able to 'just test your extension' from the core bootstraper (ie dynamically generate our suite.xml and namespace the registration of extension tests) ... but for now at least not having to wait for all the core tests as you write you extension tests and some basic documentation on how to do seems like a step forward. --michael If your tests are in just one file, you can simply pass it as a parameter to tests/phpunit/phpunit.php ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] writing phpunit tests for extensions
On 04/04/2011 02:20 PM, Platonides wrote: Michael Dale wrote: Eventually it would be ideal to be able to 'just test your extension' from the core bootstraper (ie dynamically generate our suite.xml and namespace the registration of extension tests) ... but for now at least not having to wait for all the core tests as you write you extension tests and some basic documentation on how to do seems like a step forward. --michael If your tests are in just one file, you can simply pass it as a parameter to tests/phpunit/phpunit.php that's cool. We should add that info to the phpunit.php --help output, and to the unit testing wiki page. --michael ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
