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Tag: phpunit

  • Unit Testing Horde 6

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    Ralf
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    Some years ago I reasoned about upgrading unit tests from ancient PHPUnit 4 to then-recent PHPUnit 9.Back then Horde’s unit test suite would use a Horde_Test class inheriting from the actual phpunit test cases. Even then I was fairly certain that this approach was not very practical in the long run.Why extending PHPUnit might be…

  • Why extending PHPUnit might be wrong

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    Ralf
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    Over the last few months, I spent a lot of cold winter evening hours looking into porting ancient PHPUnit 4.x test suites over to PHPUnit 9.x. The test suites, you guessed it, belong to the Horde framework. Horde actually does not just use phpunit but wraps it into its own testing library horde/test. The full…