Setup your environment for tests

The framework used is PHPUnit; it can be installed with Composer, which is a dependency management tool.

Regarding Composer, you can either use:

• a system-wide version, e.g. installed through your distro's package manager
  
• a local version, downloadable here

Sample usage

# system-wide version
$ composer install
$ composer update

# local version
$ php composer.phar self-update
$ php composer.phar install
$ php composer.phar update

Install Shaarli dev dependencies

$ cd /path/to/shaarli
$ composer update

Install and enable Xdebug to generate PHPUnit coverage reports

For Debian-based distros:

$ aptitude install php5-xdebug

For ArchLinux:

$ pacman -S xdebug

Then add the following line to /etc/php/php.ini:

zend_extension=xdebug.so

Run unit tests

Successful test suite:

$ make test

-------
PHPUNIT
-------
PHPUnit 4.6.9 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.

Configuration read from /home/virtualtam/public_html/shaarli/phpunit.xml

....................................

Time: 759 ms, Memory: 8.25Mb

OK (36 tests, 65 assertions)

Test suite with failures and errors:

$ make test
-------
PHPUNIT
-------
PHPUnit 4.6.9 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.

Configuration read from /home/virtualtam/public_html/shaarli/phpunit.xml

E..FF...............................

Time: 802 ms, Memory: 8.25Mb

There was 1 error:

1) LinkDBTest::testConstructLoggedIn
Missing argument 2 for LinkDB::__construct(), called in /home/virtualtam/public_html/shaarli/tests/Link\
DBTest.php on line 79 and defined

/home/virtualtam/public_html/shaarli/application/LinkDB.php:58
/home/virtualtam/public_html/shaarli/tests/LinkDBTest.php:79

--

There were 2 failures:

1) LinkDBTest::testCheckDBNew
Failed asserting that two strings are equal.
--- Expected
+++ Actual
@@ @@
-'e3edea8ea7bb50be4bcb404df53fbb4546a7156e'
+'85eab0c610d4f68025f6ed6e6b6b5fabd4b55834'

/home/virtualtam/public_html/shaarli/tests/LinkDBTest.php:121

2) LinkDBTest::testCheckDBLoad
Failed asserting that two strings are equal.
--- Expected
+++ Actual
@@ @@
-'e3edea8ea7bb50be4bcb404df53fbb4546a7156e'
+'85eab0c610d4f68025f6ed6e6b6b5fabd4b55834'

/home/virtualtam/public_html/shaarli/tests/LinkDBTest.php:133

FAILURES!
Tests: 36, Assertions: 63, Errors: 1, Failures: 2.

Test results and coverage

By default, PHPUnit will run all suitable tests found under the tests directory.

Each test has 3 possible outcomes:

• . - success
  
• F - failure: the test was run but its results are invalid
  
• the code does not behave as expected
  
• dependencies to external elements: globals, session, cache...
  
• E - error: something went wrong and the tested code has crashed
  
• typos in the code, or in the test code
  
• dependencies to missing external elements

If Xdebug has been installed and activated, two coverage reports will be generated:

• a summary in the console
  
• a detailed HTML report with metrics for tested code
  
• to open it in a web browser: firefox coverage/index.html &