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Subject: Writing PHPT tests
From: zoe.slattery@googlemail.com (zoe)

Hi - for any of you that are writing PHPT tests for existing extensions 
- I put a PHP script called generate_phpt.php into PHP 5.3 yesterday 
which might help a little.

It's quite a simple command line script (Raghu and I wrote it last 
year), it works by looking at the {{{proto line for a function in PHP 
source code and construct a test case frame from it. It can be used to 
construct very simple tests cases - or to turn an existing PHP file into 
PHPT format. It doesn't try and guess what the results of a test should 
be :-). I will document it properly on qa.php.net later. In the meantime:

php generate_phpt.php --help

tells you what it's supposed to do.

Zoe

PS - It doesn't work for PHP6 right now because the {{{proto line is 
different.