Kahlanhttps://github.com/kahlan/kahlan |
SimpleTesthttps://github.com/simpletest/simpletest |
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| Programming language | PHP | PHP |
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Unit Testing
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Unit Testing, Web Testing
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| General info |
Kahlan is a full-featured BDD testing framework It is a full-featured BDD testing framework that embraces the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) design principle. Kahlan makes it possible to write unit tests using the 'describe-it' syntax and requires at least PHP 5.5 |
SimpleTest is a unit test and web test framework for PHP It has JWebUnit style functionality and support for SSL, forms, frames, proxies and basic authentication |
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xUnit
Set of frameworks originating from SUnit (Smalltalk's testing framework). They share similar structure and functionality. |
No
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No
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Client-side
Allows testing code execution on the client, such as a web browser |
Yes Kahlan allows you to test front-end components and behaviour easily |
Yes With SimpleTest common but fiddly PHP tasks, such as logging into a site, can be tested easily |
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Server-side
Allows testing the bahovior of a server-side code |
Yes You can test individual back-end components using Kahlan |
Yes Server-side behaviour can be tested by writing simple unit tests to test functionality and behaviour of single components. |
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Fixtures
Allows defining a fixed, specific states of data (fixtures) that are test-local. This ensures specific environment for a single test |
Yes Fixtures can be defined by use of 'setUp()'method and cleaned using the 'tearDown()'method |
Yes It can import fixtures using a mixin like 'given()' method |
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Group fixtures
Allows defining a fixed, specific states of data for a group of tests (group-fixtures). This ensures specific environment for a given group of tests. |
Yes You can write group fixtures |
Yes It allows grouping of fixtures |
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Generators
Supports data generators for tests. Data generators generate input data for test. The test is then run for each input data produced in this way. |
N/A
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Yes Simpletest has support for generators |
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Licence
Licence type governing the use and redistribution of the software |
MIT License
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GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
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Mocks
Mocks are objects that simulate the behavior of real objects. Using mocks allows testing some part of the code in isolation (with other parts mocked when needed) |
Yes With Kahlan's stubbing system you are able to set stubs (like mocks) directly to your class methods (dynamic mocking) |
Yes It allows for one to build Mock objects.To create a mock version of a class we need to include the mock object library and run the generator. This will create a clone class which we use to create new instances(objects) in our test cases. |
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Grouping
Allows organizing tests in groups |
Yes Kahlan allows you to group tests syntactically using a closure syntax. It has describe and context methods for grouping |
Yes There are several ways of grouping tests; one is to simply place multiple test cases into a single file, another is to mark any base test cases that should not be run as abstract, Simpletest gives you a couple of options |
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Other
Other useful information about the testing framework |
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