5. Testing Your Application
by Alexander Makarov
Yii Application Development Cookbook Second Edition
- Yii Application Development Cookbook Second Edition
- Table of Contents
- Yii Application Development Cookbook Second Edition
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Under the Hood
- 2. Router, Controller, and Views
- Introduction
- Configuring URL rules
- Generating URLs by path
- Using regular expressions in URL rules
- Creating URL rules for static pages
- Providing your own URL rules at runtime
- Using a base controller
- Using external actions
- Displaying static pages with CViewAction
- Using flash messages
- Using the controller context in a view
- Reusing views with partials
- Using clips
- Using decorators
- Defining multiple layouts
- Paginating and sorting data
- 3. AJAX and jQuery
- 4. Working with Forms
- 5. Testing Your Application
- 6. Database, Active Record, and Model Tricks
- Introduction
- Getting data from a database
- Defining and using multiple DB connections
- Using scopes to get models for different languages
- Processing model fields with AR event-like methods
- Applying markdown and HTML
- Highlighting code with Yii
- Automating timestamps
- Setting up an author automatically
- Implementing single table inheritance
- Using CDbCriteria
- 7. Using Zii Components
- 8. Extending Yii
- 9. Error Handling, Debugging, and Logging
- 10. Security
- 11. Performance Tuning
- 12. Using External Code
- 13. Deployment
- Index
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Setting up the testing environment
- Writing and running unit tests
- Using fixtures
- Testing the application with functional tests
- Generating code coverage reports
In a small application, the value of testing can be unnoticeable. In large applications it is different. When an application grows and you start modifying your code, it becomes difficult not to break anything else relying on it. Even if you hire a team of professional testers, you are slowing the development a lot. However, automated testing can partially solve this problem.
Another application of automated testing is Test-driven Development (TDD). The idea is simple: when you know how a component will work, write down your requirements in the form of an automated test prior to implementing a component. This way in the end, you will know if your component works as expected and you will not have to write tests later.
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