Running PHPUnit tests in a webpage

Given that there isn’t currently built in support for PHPUnit testing in browser although it was being put into the roadmap according to an article by the author (http://sebastian-bergmann.de/archives/639-AJAX-Based-Test-Runner-for-PHPUnit.html#content) I took a script someone else had put together and modified it slightly. I can’t find the original script now so I apologies for not crediting the author. The script goes a little something like this

require_once('PHPUnit/Util/Log/JUnit.php');

function bfglob($path, $pattern = '*', $flags = 0, $depth = 0) {
  $matches = array();
  $folders = array(rtrim($path, DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR));

  while($folder = array_shift($folders)) {
    $matches = array_merge($matches, glob($folder.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$pattern, $flags));
    if($depth != 0) {
      $moreFolders = glob($folder.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'*', GLOB_ONLYDIR);
      $depth   = ($depth < -1) ? -1: $depth + count($moreFolders) - 2;
      $folders = array_merge($folders, $moreFolders);
    }
  }
  return $matches;
}

class SPTestRunner{
  public static function run(){
    // Create the test suite instance
    $suite = new PHPUnit_Framework_TestSuite();
    $suite->setName('SPTestRunner');

    $filenames = bfglob(__DIR__,"*Test.php",0,-1);
    // Add files to the TestSuite
    $suite->addTestFiles($filenames);

    // Create a xml listener object
    $listener = new PHPUnit_Util_Log_JUnit;

    // Create TestResult object and pass the xml listener to it
    $testResult = new PHPUnit_Framework_TestResult();
    $testResult->addListener($listener);

    // Run the TestSuite
    $result = $suite->run($testResult);

    // Get the results from the listener
    $xml_result = $listener->getXML();
    return $xml_result;
  }
}

$test_xml = SPTestRunner::run();
$simple = new SimpleXMLElement($test_xml);

$test_results = array();
$assertions = 0;
$time = 0.0;
$tests = 0;
foreach($simple->{'testsuite'}->testsuite as $testsuite){
  foreach($testsuite->testcase as $testcase){
    $result = array();
    $tests += 1;
    // Don't froget to cast SimpleXMLElement to string!
    $result['name'] = (string)$testcase['name'];
    $result['suite'] = (string)$testcase['class'];
    $assertions += $result['assertions'] = (string)$testcase['assertions'];
    $time += $result['time'] = (string)$testcase['time'];
    if(isset($testcase->{'failure'})){
      $result['result'] = 'Fail';
      $result['message'] = (string)$testcase->{'failure'};
    }else{
      $result['result'] = 'Pass';
      $result['message'] = '';
    }
    $test_results[] = $result;
  }
}
?>




Suite
Test Name
Result
Message
Assertions
Time



  




      
Fail

       
Pass

      





  


 TESTS
 ASSERTIONS
 SEC

It’s by no means pretty, but it does the job, just drop it in a folder at the root of your tests and it will look for all files including subdirectories that look like *Test.php and run them. Unfortunately because the script first has to wait for the XML to come back form PHPUnit you will not see the result of your tests until they have all finished running.

AJAX PHPUnit Runner

I’m hoping to find some time to able to realise an AJAX driven interface that allow you to select certain groups / tests / suites and run them in browser with realtime results. If anyway wants to lend me a hand I’m open to offers.