On Wed, 6 May 2009, David Mintz wrote:
> It's a little
> harder to create simulated http environments complete with cookies and
> sessions
My usual answer: it depends :-)
Some PHP frameworks, as well supporting unit tests, go a little further
and provide functional testing which simulates almost a full browsing
session,
e.g. in symfony:
// Create a new test browser
$browser = new sfTestBrowser();
$browser->
get('/foobar/index')->
isStatusCode(200)->
isRequestParameter('module', 'foobar')->
isRequestParameter('action', 'index')->
checkResponseElement('body', '!/This is a temporary page/');
To test for cookies:
$b->test()->is($request->getCookie('foo'), 'bar'); // Incoming cookie
$cookies = $response->getCookies();
$b->test()->is($cookies['foo'], 'foo=bar'); // Outgoing cookie
To test redirects:
$b->
get('/foobar/edit/id/1')->
click('go', array('name' => 'dummy'))->
isStatusCode(200)->
isRequestParameter('module', 'foobar')->
isRequestParameter('action', 'update')->
isRedirected()-> // Check that the response is a redirect
followRedirect()-> // Manually follow the redirection
isStatusCode(200)->
isRequestParameter('module', 'foobar')->
isRequestParameter('action', 'show');
To check for certain elements in the DOM:
b->get('/foobar/edit/id/1');
$dom = $b->getResponseDom();
$b->test()->is($dom->getElementsByTagName('input')->item(1)->getAttribute('type'),'text');
I dont know about the Zend Library but symfony has had this for years
which goes a long way towards encouraging TDD.
--
Aj.
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