Re: [fw-mvc] How to start a test?

Thanks for your reply.

If I want to start a mvc testing, how can i bootstrap the application?

2009/9/28 Matthew Weier O'Phinney <matthew@zend.com>

-- huajun qi <qihjun@gmail.com> wrote
(on Sunday, 27 September 2009, 10:28 AM +0800):

> I read the guide reference about testing,  and I think it's different
> from usual unit test, it is integrated into the frame, isn't it?
>
> If I just want to test a class, but it refers to database, how can I
> do it?

For normal unit testing, you can use the unit testing framework of your
choice: PHPUnit, SimpleTest, phpt, etc.

What ZF provides are some PHPUnit extensions that allow you to test your
MVC applications and/or code that utilizes Zend_Db; these are found in
Zend_Test_PHPUnit_ControllerTestCase and Zend_Test_PHPUnit_Db,
respectively

> Does the test classes zf provides need to start the application?

For MVC application testing, yes -- you need to bootstrap your
application, and then use the methods in the ControllerTestCase to
dispatch actions and test against the response.

For testing code that utilizes Zend_Db -- for instance, your models
and/or service layer -- you can either use the DatabaseTestCase or the
DB mixin support to bootstrap the database connection.

> And I prefet to use simpletest framework, can it be deployed well?

It can -- but we have no official support for it within the framework.

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