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I'm new on testing, I'm using PHPUnit to write test. All the site has been designed using the MVC pattern.
I would like to test each method on my controllers, the problem is that such methods receives the parameters though the $_POST variable. How can I overwrite this variable?
Thanks in advance Alejandra
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How to Run Tests in PHPUnit. You can run all the tests in a directory using the PHPUnit binary installed in your vendor folder. You can also run a single test by providing the path to the test file. You use the --verbose flag to get more information on the test status.
PHPUnit is a unit testing framework for the PHP programming language. It is an instance of the xUnit design for unit testing systems that began with SUnit and became popular with JUnit. Even a small software development project usually takes hours of hard work.
The assertion methods are declared static and can be invoked from any context using PHPUnit\Framework\Assert::assertTrue() , for instance, or using $this->assertTrue() or self::assertTrue() , for instance, in a class that extends PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase .
The best approach would be to abstract the Request into a separate class and not access the superglobals at all. This way you decouple the actual server and request environment from the application. You can then mock the Request easily.
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First, if you are using Zend_Test, use
$this->request->setMethod('POST')->setPost(array(insert array info here));
If your not using that, try this:
Warning: Not the best solution, but it will work!
Put this in your setUp fixture
protected function setUp()
{
parent::setUp();
$_POST = array();
}
Then before you call your test just do something similar to this:
$_POST = array(insert array data here)
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