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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Writing PHPT tests
From: zoe.slattery@googlemail.com (zoe)

Rob Nicholson wrote:
>
> Hi Zoe,
>
> I notice also that the testcase generator and the testcases we have 
> been committing differ slightly from the conventions listed at: 
> http://qa.php.net/write-test.php . This was based on feedback we 
> received so I think that http://qa.php.net/write-test.php should be 
> updated. Specifically the  convention of writing multiple small tests 
> to cover basic, variation  and error cases separately differs from the 
> naming convention suggested on the QA pages.
Rob - you are right - I think the most important thing we learned is 
that size matters - the smaller the better.
>  We have also been following a convention w.r.t comments in the 
> testcase which I think is helpful so I'd suggest we cover this too. 
> Since the testcase generator adds these comments its  worth 
> documenting them.
>
> I'll produce a patch to the documentation for review if you like.
>
Please do :-) I admit I have been meaning to do this for ages and it's 
bad that I haven't got around to it.
>
> Rob Nicholson
>
>
> From: 	zoe <zoe.slattery@googlemail.com>
> To: 	internals@lists.php.net
> Date: 	02/02/2008 11:21
> Subject: 	[PHP-DEV] Writing PHPT tests
>
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>
> 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.
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