Passing parameters to PHPUnit

Question

I\'m starting to write PHPUnit tests and I\'d like the tests to be run from developers machines as well as from our servers. Developers machines are set up differently than

Answer 1

An elegant way to pass variables to both bootstrap files as well as to test files is by using environment variables:

export MY_ENV_VAR="some value"

phpunit all

Then, in your PHP files, you can access it like this:

getenv('MY_ENV_VAR')

Source: http://blog.lysender.com/2010/10/phpunit-passing-environment-variable-to-your-application/

Answer 2

If you would like to run tests on remote machine, use ssh then run it. On locale machine you only have to cd to your root dir, then run phpunit.

user@local:/path/to/your/project$ phpunit
user@remote:/var/www/project$ phpunit

Edit: You are talking about a machine dependent configuration. (What kind of conf btw?) My solution is to put these config under the same, not versioncontrolled place, then read/parse it runtime, in the needed set up methds for example.

Answer 3

I struggled with this exact issue, and came up with a kind of hacky-yet-convenient solution: I write parameters to a file on disk and retrieve them in the setUp() method:

public function setUp() {
    $this->setBrowser('firefox');
    $this->base_url = file_get_contents("selenium_host");
    $this->setBrowserUrl($this->base_url);
}

Rather than calling phpunit or paratest directly, I have a shell script to launch the tests. This one invokes paratest and lets me specify the number of processes as well as the host I'd like the tests to run against.

run_all_tests.sh

if [ $1 ] 
then
    threads=$1
else
    threads=5
fi
if [ $2 ]
then
    echo $2 > selenium_host
else
    echo 'http://defaulthost.com' > selenium_host
fi

vendor/bin/paratest -p$threads -f --colors TestSuite.php

Then, to run with 7 threads against http://adifferenthost.com:

./run_all_tests.sh 7 'http://adifferenthost.com'