NetTuts.com: Basic Functional Testing With Symfony 2's Crawler

In this new tutorial on the NetTuts.com site Andrew Perkins shares a way that you can use Symfony2's own Crawler to do some simple functional testing.

Testing your web applications is one of the best things you can do to ensure its health, safety, and security, both for the app and your app's visitors. Symfony 2 offers a complete integration testing suite that you can use to make sure your applications run just as you expect. Today we'll look at how we can use Symfony 2 and PHPUnit, the testing framework that it employs, to write basic functional tests using the Crawler.

He starts off by helping you get a Symfony2 instance installed, the Standard edition, and grabbing the latest PHPUnit phar file from the project's site. He then gets into the actual development of the Crawler bundle, using the command line Symfony tool to do some of the automatic code generation for you. They show how to execute the PHPUnit tests and make the first controller/action/routes for the sample pages to test. He then makes the first test file, extending the "WebTestCase" class from the Symfony2 components. He makes a simple client, executes the request and shows how to test various parts of the response (including an example of mimicking the clicking of a link).

Link: http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/basic-functional-testing-with-symfony-2s-crawler--cms-20666