Developer Area/Testing/Unit Testing

Unit Test Introduction

Work is currently underway to integrate phpunit unit testing in to Mahara. Documentation for phpunit is available at http://www.phpunit.de/manual/current/en/

Setup and Running

You'll need to already have mahara set up and installed. Default settings are copied from your running configuration and overridden with unit test settings.

• Install phpunit on your development machine; (on ubuntu you may need to follow these instructions https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/phpunit/+bug/701544/comments/6)
• Switch to a user with permission to access your dataroot directory. In debian this would be:

 sudo su - www-data

• Change directory to the root of the mahara git tree (the directory that htdocs is in)

 cd $path_to_mahara

• Run phpunit:

 phpunit .

Best Practices

TODO