PHPUnit Pocket Guide

PHPUnit2_Framework_TestCase

Your test-case classes will inherit from PHPUnit2_Framework_ TestCase. Most of the time, you will run tests from automatically created test suites. In this case, each of your tests should be represented by a method named test* (by convention).

PHPUnit2_Framework_TestCase implements PHPUnit2_Framework_ Test::countTestCases( ) so that it always returns 1. The implementation of PHPUnit2_Framework_Test::run(PHPUnit2_ Framework_TestResult $result) in this class runs setUp( ), runs the test method, and then runs tearDown( ), reporting any exceptions to the PHPUnit2_Framework_TestResult.

Table 9 shows the external protocols implemented by PHPUnit2_Framework_TestCase.

Table 9. TestCase external protocols

Method	Description
__construct( )	Creates a test case.
__construct(String $name)	Creates a named test case. Names are used to print the test case and often as the name of the test method to be run by reflection.
String getName( )	Returns the name of the test case.
void setName($name( )	Sets the name of the test case.
PHPUnit2_Framework_TestResult run(PHPUnit2_Framework_TestResult $result)	Runs the test case and reports the result in $result.
void runTest( )	Overrides with a testing method if you do not want the testing method to be invoked by reflection.

There are two template methods—setUp( ) and tearDown( )— you can override to create and dispose of the objects against which you are going to test. Table 10 shows these methods.

Table 10. Template ...