Writing a PHPUnit testcase HOWTO

Writing a test for CiviCRM usually consists of three steps:

1. Figuring out a test case scenario
2. Preparing test data set
3. Writing the test

Figuring out a test case scenario

First step is making a decision about what should be tested.

TODO (two ways - extending the coverage of existing tests or writing new ones, testing specific classes (BAOs preferred) or testing specific scenarios)

Preparing test data set

TODO (look around in dataset directory to see if there is no relevant datasets already cleated that will be useful for your test)

Example of Flat XML data set

Example of XML data set

For more information about Database testing, refer to phpUnit documentation.

Writing the test

Start off with creating a class, like in below example.

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