What is Codeception?
Codeception is a framework written in PHP for testing application and its multi-featured test framework powered by famous PHPUnit Framework.
It can manage Unit, Functional and Acceptance for web application.
How to create a Unit Test?
Testing pieces of code before coupling them together.
It creates a new ExampleTest file located in the tests/unit directory.
php vendor/bin/codecept generate:test unit Example
Run the newly created test with this command.
php vendor/bin/codecept run unit ExampleTest
Acceptance Test
Acceptance testing allows us to test our applications using the normal website viewing process of visit a webpage, fill in a form, and submit the form to see the desired result.
The difference is with Codeception, we don’t have to waste time going to the browser each time we want to test a new feature out, instead we can just run our acceptance tests to see if they pass or not.
Webserver is required. Can use Nginx from docker container.
How to generate an acceptance test?
By running this code:
./vendor/bin/codecept generate:test_name acceptance
Run only acceptance test:
./vendor/bin/codecept run acceptance
See the full list of the tests (unit, acceptance and functional):
./vendor/bin/codecept run acceptance --steps
Functional Test
Reference
- Codeception Introduction
- Codeception Quickstart
- Introduction to Codeception, medium
- Codeception support in PhpStorm
- PHPBrowser Installation
- Codeception and Yii