Testing, Development and Automation

[Ragazzo]

This is a shortlist of guide that should be written to show developers how they can apply different development techniques with Yii2 and what is now available in Yii2.

• TDD
  • intro;
  • UI testing with Codeception (acceptance, functional and difference between them);
  • unit-tests with PhpUnit in Codeception (also with fixtures, yii-faker, database cleanup);
  • introduce AOP and AspectMock.
• BDD
  • intro;
  • Behat with Yii2.
• DDD
  • intro;
  • how to apply and is it possible to apply DDD with Yii2,
• Automation and CI
  • Jenkins setup to run all tests (functional, acceptance, unit) with Yii2.

This is a short list, each of the part of this list i think will be in separated article to be easy and useful for readers. Will handle this one, also other developers are very welcome. Work on this issue can be started after testing environments for yii2-basic and yii2-advanced will be implemented.

[Ragazzo]

Related issues:

• Yii2 basic codeception #1393
• Add fixture command #1506
• Improved database managing for tests #1521
• Request: Add codeception to advanced Yii template #1039
• [Testing] Wrappers over Session, Headers, Cookies #130

[Ragazzo]

@samdark @qiangxue @cebe @klimov-paul i am currently started work on DDD part of the list . I decided to do it in separated repo since it can get bigger than simple 1 - 2 .md files. It can be later linked to the Yii2 guide docs if you want. Your suggestions are very welcome , maybe some thoughts on how it should be explained / structured

[Faryshta]

@Ragazzo any update on this? need help at anything?

[samdark]

@Faryshta I don't think @Ragazzo is going to work on it.

[Faryshta]

i would like to help but i don't even know the difference between functional and acceptance testing.

and i don't see how to implement unit testing on a web app outside fixtures.

[samdark]

@Faryshta it's described well in Codeception guide: http://codeception.com/docs/01-Introduction

[samdark]

Since there's no work going to be done by @Ragazzo, closing.