WordPress-TDD

Introduction

Test Driven Development with WordPress. Sample codes derived from notes in this StackOverflow question.

WordPress Testing framework developed by Nikolay Bachiyski. His framework is a wrapper around PHPUnit and is now being integrated as the defacto test runner in WordPress Unit Tests for the WordPress Core.

Setup

1. Clone this Git Repository

    $ git clone git://github.com/miccheng/WordPress-TDD.git
   

2. Initialize Git submodule for WordPress-Tests.

    $ git submodule init
    $ git submodule update
   

3. Copy my-plugin folder into your current WordPress installation.

4. Enable the MyPlugin module.

5. Copy WordPress-Tests folder to the same folder level as your WordPress installation.

6. Copy unittests-config-sample.php to unittests-config.php. Edit the new file and update the database, path setting.

7. In console/terminal, cd to the my-plugin folder.

8. Type: phpunit.

Next Steps

• Refer to my slides on SpeakerDeck (TDD for PHP -https://speakerdeck.com/u/miccheng/p/test-drive-development-with-php) for basics of TDD with PHPUnit.
• Look inside my-plugin/tests/ folder for sample of how to write tests for WordPress.