Testing

Testing - best pratices

Testing Controllers

In general it is best to only use testAction() once per test. So my convention is to use "test" + "ActionName" + "method (if not default one)"

/**
 * testAdminAdd()
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function testAdminAdd() {
	$url = Router::url(array('admin' => true, 'controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'add'));
	$options = array(
		'return' => 'contents'
	);
	$result = $this->testAction($url, $options);
	$this->assertNotEmpty($result);
}

/**
 * testAdminAddPost()
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function testAdminAddPost() {
	$url = Router::url(array('admin' => true, 'controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'add'));
	$options = array(
		'method' => 'post',
		'return' => 'contents',
		'data' => array(
			'User' => array(
				'name' => 'test'
			)
		)
	);
	$result = $this->testAction($url, $options);
	$this->assertNull($result);

	$url = Router::url(array('admin' => true, 'controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'index'));
	$this->assertTextContains($url, $this->headers['Location']);
}

Note how I use dynamic URLs here to avoid routing changes affect all controller tests. So these tests effectively test the same URL as the frontend.

So basic tests should be made for

• index (GET)
• view (GET)
• add (GET + POST)
• edit (GET + POST)
• delete (POST)

and their admin counterparts, if applicable.

Using controller tests also tests the views to the actions. Which is a nice side effect. Any warning/error popping up there will then also be visible right away.

For plugin controllers to be testable unfortunately you always need to use $uses, even if it wasn't necessary due to conventions. So for your Tools.TinyUrls Controller you would need

public $uses = array('Tools.TinyUrl');

Otherwise it would always try to look for the model/fixture in your app dir, which will eventually always fail.

Note: Do not forget to use --stderr when testing in CLI. Otherwise all tests that use the session (and which work fine in webtest runner) will fail:

Testing Shells

TODO

Testing Models

TODO

Testing Helpers

TODO

Test Coverage

If you want to generate a HTML overview of all your locale test coverage:

cake test app AllApp --stderr --log-junit tmp/coverage/unitreport.xml --coverage-html tmp/coverage --coverage-clover tmp/coverage/coverage.xml

The report index.html will be in your /tmp/coverage folder.