In this new post to the Debuggable blog, Tim Koschutki points out the method for using grouping in your CakePHP application's queries (specifically in the new Release 2).

Having promised it in the first post on how to do Group By in CakePHP I worked on an array() version for the group statement in Model::find() calls. So I implemented it.

His code shows the calls to find() the grouped information and accompanying unit test assertEquals calls to check that the results are correct. His examples show a few different ways to accomplish the same thing.

Sebastian Bergmann has pointed out a new offering that PHPUnit will have starting with version 3.2 - TestNG-style data parameters.

He includes a test case example that sets up a test method (dataProvider) that checks the input against the assert to ensure that it matches - in those case, that it matches an integer value.

The method specified by the @dataProvider annotation returns an array or an Iterator object that contain argument arrays. For each of these arrays a test object is created that will run the test method with the argument from the array.

As test run of the instance is also included.