{"id":1774,"date":"2015-02-21T17:20:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T16:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denbeke.be\/blog\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2015-02-25T13:41:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T12:41:32","slug":"php-unit-tests-with-travis-phpunit-and-composer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denbeke.be\/blog\/programming\/php-unit-tests-with-travis-phpunit-and-composer\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP: Unit tests with Travis, PHPUnit and Composer"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a perfect world, every software developer writes tons of unit tests, and uses continuous integration to make sure everything keeps working. Travis, PHPUnit and Composer are there to save you a lot of time!<\/em><\/p>\n

In this blogpost I will explain how to setup Travis and\u00a0run PHPUnit to run unit tests in a PHP project with Composer.<\/p>\n

Composer\"Composer<\/a><\/h2>\n

Composer<\/a> is a super awesome dependency manager for PHP. If you don’t use it yet, you are doing it wrong!\u00a0\ud83d\ude42 \u00a0For this guide I assume you already have a working composer.json<\/code> file and you know the basics of Composer.<\/p>\n

Before you can actually test something you must of course run composer install<\/code> to download all the dependencies.<\/p>\n

PHPUnit<\/h2>\n

PHPUnit<\/a> is the ultimate unit testing framework for PHP. Installation instructions can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Next thing to do is create the phpunit.xml<\/code> file. This file will contain your PHPUnit configuration and will make it very easy to run the unit tests from the command line.<\/p>\n

<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\r\n\r\n<phpunit backupGlobals=\"false\"\r\n         backupStaticAttributes=\"false\"\r\n         bootstrap=\"vendor\/autoload.php\"\r\n         colors=\"true\"\r\n         convertErrorsToExceptions=\"true\"\r\n         convertNoticesToExceptions=\"true\"\r\n         convertWarningsToExceptions=\"true\"\r\n         processIsolation=\"false\"\r\n         stopOnFailure=\"false\"\r\n         syntaxCheck=\"false\"\r\n        >\r\n\r\n    <testsuites>\r\n        <testsuite name=\"My package's test suit\">\r\n            <directory>.\/tests\/<\/directory>\r\n        <\/testsuite>\r\n    <\/testsuites>\r\n\r\n<\/phpunit><\/code><\/pre>\n
In this phpunit.xml<\/code> file I have set some basic variables which might be different for your project. But note the bootstrap<\/code> argument.\u00a0Assign the path to your Composer autoload.php<\/code> file to the bootstrap<\/code> variable.<\/p>\n
Next you must specify the directory where your PHP test files are located.<\/p>\n
Run your unit tests (and check if PHPUnit is correctly configured): phpunit<\/code><\/p>\n
This should yield an output like this:<\/p>\n
~\/S\/MyPackage (master) $ phpunit\r\nPHPUnit 4.5.0 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.\r\n\r\nConfiguration read from \/Path\/To\/My\/Package\/phpunit.xml\r\n\r\n.......\r\n\r\nTime: 92 ms, Memory: 3.50Mb\r\n\r\nOK (7 tests, 24 assertions)<\/code><\/pre>\n
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Travis\"Travis<\/a><\/h2>\n
Composer and PHPUnit configured, it’s time to create the .travis.yml<\/code> file to configure Travis<\/a>.<\/p>\n
language: php\r\nphp:\r\n  - 5.4\r\n  - 5.5\r\n  - 5.6\r\n\r\ninstall:\r\n  - composer install --no-interaction\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
The Travis configuration is just a normal PHP config, but before installing, Travis must run composer install<\/code>.<\/p>\n
Push everything to Github and let Travis run your unit tests.<\/p>\n
If you want strict synchronization between your local Composer dependencies and remote installations, you must also commit the composer.lock<\/code> file to your repo. Most people place it in their .gitignore<\/code>, but it is actually meant to be committed to Git.<\/p>\n
Example<\/h2>\n
If you need a live example of such a configuration, take a look at my ORM (Github<\/a> \/ Travis<\/a>) package. In this package I specified an other Composer vendor directory (core\/lib<\/code>), so I also changed the bootstrap<\/code> variable in the PHPUnit configuration. You may also ignore the database section in the .travis.yml<\/code> file…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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