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Ivan Enderlin:
How Automattic (WordPress.com & co.) partly moved away from PHPUnit to atoum?
Mar 22, 2018 @ 17:08:37

In a post to his blog Ivan Enderlin talks about a move that his team at Automattic (the company behind WordPress) made away from using PHPUnit for their application testing over to atoum and some of the reasoning behind it.

Few months ago at tagged: wordpress testing unittest atoum phpunit comparison migration

Link: https://mnt.io/2018/02/26/how-automattic-partly-moved-away-from-phpunit-to-atoum/

SitePoint PHP Blog:
Testing PHP Code with Atoum – an Alternative to PHPUnit
Oct 21, 2016 @ 16:52:28

The SitePoint PHP blog has a tutorial posted introducing you to a more recent addition to the testing tools available to PHP: atoum. The tutorial provides the basics and shows you how to use it in testing your code as an alternative to PHPUnit.

f you’ve been around PHP for more than a little while, you’ve no doubt started to test your code. And if you ask anyone in the PHP space what to use for writing unit tests, likely the first answer that they’ll give you is PHPUnit.

It’s the de facto standard in the PHP community, and with good reason. But it’s not the only choice. Whilst it does command the lion’s share, other choices abound, one of which I’m going to take you through in this tutorial; it’s called atoum.

They briefly introduce the tool (a "simple, modern, and intuitive unit testing framework for PHP") and help you get it installed. They also recommend installing the "atoum/stubs" package as well, making it easier to do autocomplete in most IDEs. From there the tutorial helps you configure your atoum installation to allow for code coverage reports to be generated. With things configured nicely, the next step is creating a first test evaluating a simple method that either works correctly or throws an exception. Code is included showing how to use the testing to set up expectations and evaluate the results of method execution. Finally they show the command to execute the test(s) and what the resulting code coverage reports look like.

tagged: testing unittest atoum introduction tutorial alternative

Link: https://www.sitepoint.com/testing-php-code-with-atoum-an-alternative-to-phpunit/


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