CakePHP Unit Testing

CakePHP Unit Testing

Accelerate Your Development

About the Book

I wrote this book for the following audiences:

  • People who have programming skills and want to improve the quality of their code.
  • People who have heard about unit testing but are still not clear what it is or how it works.
  • People who love CakePHP and want to take advantage of what it offers.
  • People who have spent a lot of time searching for bugs after a 3rd party upgrade.

The examples in this book use CakePHP, but the first half of the book is not framework or language specific. I hope unit testing and the ideas presented in this book will help you as much as they’ve helped me.

About the Author

rrd
rrd

rrd started to code for the web in plain HTML in 1998. As the web evolved, he turned to PHP, then to Javascript. As mobile technologies arrived, he started to play with Java for android development.

He’s a big fan of CakePHP and jQuery frameworks, open source, and pizza. All of them are there in his web development.

About the Contributors

András Halter
András Halter

artwork

Eric Bernasek
Eric Bernasek

editor

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • About the Book
    • Why I Wrote This Book
    • My Development Environment
    • Who This Book Is For
  • About the Author
  • Thanks
  • My E-books on CakePHP
    • CakePHP Unit Testing
    • CakePHP User Authentication
  • My CakePHP Plugins
  • What Is Unit Testing
    • Arguments
    • Why Should We Write Tests?
  • What Is CakePHP
    • Main Features
  • Clean Code
    • How Tests Help Write Clean Code
  • Test Driven Development
    • TDD Development Cycle
  • Development Cycle
    • Understanding the Challenge
    • Planning
    • Installation
    • Coding, Testing, Documenting and User Feedback
    • Topics Not Covered
  • Preparing for Testing
    • Installing
    • Preparing
  • Fixtures
    • Creating Fixtures
    • Loading Fixtures Into Your Tests
  • Model Tests
    • Test Function Names
    • Assertions
    • Fail First
    • Passing Test
  • Test Callbacks
  • Controller Tests I.
    • Return Types
    • POST and GET Requests
  • Mocks
    • Expects Method
    • A More Complex Mock Example
    • Mocking Core PHP Functions
  • Controller Tests II.
    • Redirects
    • Debug
  • Test Suites
  • Testing from Command Line
  • Goodies
    • Code Coverage
    • Fixtures Data
    • Testing Private Methods
  • References by Chapters
    • What Is Unit Testing
    • Clean Code
    • Test Driven Development
    • Development Cycle
    • Others

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