Tuesday, October 17. 2006
FIT for PHP
As I'm going to talk aboit FIT at the PHP Conference, I like to invite you to check out the preview of PHPFIT package. Simply download and install the PEAR package or tar archive.FIT stands for Framework for Integrated Test (See: FIT Wiki) realices acceptance tests with heavy use of HTML documents. Those documents do not just contain the usual blah-blah but hard facts. The factsare actually stored in (HTML) tables. This is where FIT - respectively PHPFIT - comes in. The FIT knows which testing class must be executed for a particular table and which function to call to calculate the results of a specific cell and the framework makes it very easy for you to implement concrete test-classes.
Also FIT simply handles HTML documents. As such they can be viewed a common browsers and even created with Word-a-like editors. Hence FIT goes far beyond what traditional unit testing offers (FIT is not meant to replace unit-tests) and may enrich your next project.
Hopefully PHPFIT will be available as official PEAR package. Unfortunately I lost my password. So I was not capable to push the proposal any further
But this will change.
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If I understand well, it's something you put on top of unit tests ? Can it integrates with existing unit tests done with, say, phpunit ?
looks interesting
looks interesting
It's not so much on top Unit-Tests, it is more about communication.
Unit-Tests (usually) are visible for testers and programmers. FIT-(HTML)-Documents are e.g. written by your customer. Hence it contains all your client's expectaions. Now PHPFIT automatically compares those expectations with actual results.
So, for example we use Simple-Test (like PHPUnit) for plenty of tests on API-level (check functions and methods). At the same time FIT gives the answers to questions like: "Is it possible to store my chinese address?"
Give it a go, I guess you'll like it.
Unit-Tests (usually) are visible for testers and programmers. FIT-(HTML)-Documents are e.g. written by your customer. Hence it contains all your client's expectaions. Now PHPFIT automatically compares those expectations with actual results.
So, for example we use Simple-Test (like PHPUnit) for plenty of tests on API-level (check functions and methods). At the same time FIT gives the answers to questions like: "Is it possible to store my chinese address?"
Give it a go, I guess you'll like it.
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