Testing Yii with Codeception

We have an application written in Yii. Up til this point, it has been manually tested. Since it’s more efficient to automate the testing of this application, we have decided to set up Codeception to assist us with this task.

Set up was easy and straight forward - this said after spending countless hours understanding the correct way to set it up.

To illustrate the set up process, we’ll create a skeleton Yii app.

php /path/to/yii/framework/yiic.php webapp /path/to/webapp

Next, download a copy of codecept.phar and put it in /path/to/webapp/protected, and run this

cd /path/to/webapp/protected
php codecept.phar bootstrap

Various files would be created in /path/to/webapp/protected/tests

Look up the file /path/to/webapp/protected/tests/acceptance.suite.yml and update url to http://localhost/webapp

You might not believe it, but set up is done. We’ll proceed to verify our set up has been done correctly.

Create a file LoginCept.php in /path/to/webapp/protected/tests/acceptance

<?php
$I = new AcceptanceTester($scenario);
$I->wantTo('Test index page');
$I->amOnPage('/index.php');
$I->see('My Web Application','#header #logo');
$I->click('Login');
$I->see('Login','h1');
$I->see('Username');
$I->fillField('#LoginForm_username','demo');
$I->fillField('#LoginForm_password','demo');
$I->click('#login-form input[type="submit"]');
$I->seeLink('Logout (demo)');
$I->click('Logout (demo)');
$I->seeLink('Login');

Run the acceptance test.

cd /path/to/webapp/protected
php codecept.phar run acceptance

You should see this OK (1 test, 5 assertions) if the setup and test went according to plan.

References

https://github.com/Codeception/Codeception http://codeception.com/docs/modules/Yii1

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