Unit testing Zend_Forms

[Steven Szymczak]

I've just started digging deeper into Zend_Form and I'm interested in
how to go about unit testing them.  I've looked through the PHPUnit
docs, zf-general archives, and Pádraic Brady's blog (briefly) but
haven't found anything extremely useful.  So can anybody here point me
in the direction of any articles that deal with this?

Cheers,
-- Steven

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[Jake McGraw]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Steven Szymczak
<[hidden email]> wrote:
> I've just started digging deeper into Zend_Form and I'm interested in how to
> go about unit testing them.  I've looked through the PHPUnit docs,
> zf-general archives, and Pádraic Brady's blog (briefly) but haven't found
> anything extremely useful.  So can anybody here point me in the direction of
> any articles that deal with this?

Are you trying to use Zend_Test or just PHPUnit by itself. Personally,
the built in support for PHPUnit and ZF MVC rocks, though, like every
ZF Component, takes a little of work to get started. The best
resources I've found for this are:

Unit Testing with the Zend Framework with Zend_Test and PHPUnit
http://www.zendcasts.com/unit-testing-with-the-zend-framework-with-zend_test-and-phpunit/2009/06/comment-page-1/

I know it's a drag, but really, read every line in the manual, and
work along with the examples:
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.test.html

- jake

>
> Cheers,
> -- Steven
>
> --
> スティーブン
>
>

[Steven Szymczak]

I'm not too fussed about whether the testing is carried out using
Zend_Test or standalone PHPUnit.  I'm just trying to be conscientious
about testing; and, since I'm working on a user control module at the
moment, I'm interested in testing Zend_Forms specifically.


Jake McGraw wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Steven Szymczak
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> I've just started digging deeper into Zend_Form and I'm interested in how to
>> go about unit testing them.  I've looked through the PHPUnit docs,
>> zf-general archives, and Pádraic Brady's blog (briefly) but haven't found
>> anything extremely useful.  So can anybody here point me in the direction of
>> any articles that deal with this?
>
> Are you trying to use Zend_Test or just PHPUnit by itself. Personally,
> the built in support for PHPUnit and ZF MVC rocks, though, like every
> ZF Component, takes a little of work to get started. The best
> resources I've found for this are:
>
> Unit Testing with the Zend Framework with Zend_Test and PHPUnit
> http://www.zendcasts.com/unit-testing-with-the-zend-framework-with-zend_test-and-phpunit/2009/06/comment-page-1/
>
> I know it's a drag, but really, read every line in the manual, and
> work along with the examples:
> http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.test.html
>
> - jake
>
>> Cheers,
>> -- Steven
>>
>> --
>> スティーブン
>>
>>

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[Andreas Kraftl]

Hello,

try also Selenium. It is an additional testing, especially for forms.

Greetings
Andreas

Am Mittwoch, den 06.01.2010, 01:45 +0000 schrieb Steven Szymczak:

> I'm not too fussed about whether the testing is carried out using
> Zend_Test or standalone PHPUnit.  I'm just trying to be conscientious
> about testing; and, since I'm working on a user control module at the
> moment, I'm interested in testing Zend_Forms specifically.
>
>
> Jake McGraw wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Steven Szymczak
> > <[hidden email]> wrote:
> >> I've just started digging deeper into Zend_Form and I'm interested in how to
> >> go about unit testing them.  I've looked through the PHPUnit docs,
> >> zf-general archives, and Pádraic Brady's blog (briefly) but haven't found
> >> anything extremely useful.  So can anybody here point me in the direction of
> >> any articles that deal with this?
> >
> > Are you trying to use Zend_Test or just PHPUnit by itself. Personally,
> > the built in support for PHPUnit and ZF MVC rocks, though, like every
> > ZF Component, takes a little of work to get started. The best
> > resources I've found for this are:
> >
> > Unit Testing with the Zend Framework with Zend_Test and PHPUnit
> > http://www.zendcasts.com/unit-testing-with-the-zend-framework-with-zend_test-and-phpunit/2009/06/comment-page-1/
> >
> > I know it's a drag, but really, read every line in the manual, and
> > work along with the examples:
> > http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.test.html
> >
> > - jake
> >
> >> Cheers,
> >> -- Steven
> >>
> >> --
> >> スティーブン
> >>
> >>
>

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[dmitrybelyakov]

Hi, Steve.

I just wonder if you have found any good ways of testing Zend_Form classes?

Dmitry.

[A.J. Brown-3]

You should only need to unit test your forms if they are adding
functionality to Zend_Form.  The built in Decorators, Filters,
Validators, etc should already be tested.  If you're using a custom
Decorator, Filter, Validator, or View, you should test those
separately from the form.

With that said, your integration tests only need to test that
$form->getValues() returns the expected filtered values and blocks
values you expect to reject.  You would essentially setup a list of
inputs that are valid, loop over them and pass them to the form, and
make sure it validates.  Then pass it a set of bad values, loop over
them, and assert that they do not validate.  You're actually testing
the configuration of the form here, not the form classes themselves.

I can mock up a quick test if that doesn't make sense.



On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:33 PM, dmitrybelyakov <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> Hi, Steve.
>
> I just wonder if you have found any good ways of testing Zend_Form classes?
>
> Dmitry.
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[dmitrybelyakov]

A.J. Brown-3 wrote

You should only need to unit test your forms if they are adding
functionality to Zend_Form.  The built in Decorators, Filters,
Validators, etc should already be tested.  If you're using a custom
Decorator, Filter, Validator, or View, you should test those
separately from the form.

With that said, your integration tests only need to test that
$form->getValues() returns the expected filtered values and blocks
values you expect to reject.  You would essentially setup a list of
inputs that are valid, loop over them and pass them to the form, and
make sure it validates.  Then pass it a set of bad values, loop over
them, and assert that they do not validate.  You're actually testing
the configuration of the form here, not the form classes themselves.

I can mock up a quick test if that doesn't make sense.

Hi A.J.!

On the contrary - that makes a lot of sense. I was first thinking of an approach to
test forms through the corresponding controllers, but i like yours one better.
I think its more logical to do it this way - thanks a lot for the hint!

Good luck,
Dmitry.

[Giorgio Sironi]

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:09 PM, dmitrybelyakov
<[hidden email]> wrote:>
> On the contrary - that makes a lot of sense. I was first thining of an
> approach to
> test forms through the corresponding controllers, but i like yours one
> better.
> I think its more logical to do it this way - thanks a lot for the hint!

For the list of inputs you can take advantage of PHPUnit's
@dataProvider annotation. You can also test end-to-end with Zend_Test
to check, for example, that the form sends to the right action with
the right method.

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