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| Prophecy | Behat | |
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| 2 | 3 | |
| 8,530 | 3,880 | |
| -0.0% | 0.1% | |
| 6.5 | 3.7 | |
| 20 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Prophecy
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Test doubles
Prophecy is a framework for creating test doubles that was initially built for the requirements of phpspec, but it can be used with any other PHP testing framework. Since PHPUnit 4.5 it bundles Prophecy within PHPUnit itself, but as of PHPUnit 9.x this bundling is deprecated and set to be removed in PHPUnit 10.
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Testing with immutable PSR-7 objects and Prophecy
Recently I have been working a lot with PSR-15 and PSR-18 and one of the characteristics of these recommendations is that it uses the immutable objects specified in PSR-7. Soon after we introduced PSR-18 in our codebase a colleague implemented a client including a unit test that was passing. And yet the code was failing when run in the browser. The cause of this was that the fact that RequestInterface objects are immutable by specification was overlooked. Due to the use of Prophecy and prophesized objects we were struggling to properly test it. Until another colleague introduced me to Argument::that() that is.
Behat
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Modern tools for PHP developers
Other tools worth mentioning include Codeception and behat. Both use phpUnit underneath, but have different approaches to writing tests.
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When Symfony Http Kernel is a Too Big Hammer to Use
An example of a big CLI project using this with great success is Behat: https://github.com/behat/behat
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10 Of The Best PHP Testing Frameworks For 2021
Step 3: If you don’t have a Composer, you can easily set up the framework by downloading the latest version of behat.phar.
What are some alternatives?
Mockery - Mockery is a simple yet flexible PHP mock object framework for use in unit testing with PHPUnit, PHPSpec or any other testing framework. Its core goal is to offer a test double framework with a succinct API capable of clearly defining all possible object operations and interactions using a human readable Domain Specific Language (DSL).
Codeception - Full-stack testing PHP framework
PHPSpec - SpecBDD Framework for PHP
PHPUnit - The PHP Unit Testing framework.
ParaTest - :computer: Parallel testing for PHPUnit
Phake - PHP Mocking Framework
Atoum - The modern, simple and intuitive PHP unit testing framework.
AspectMock - The most powerful and flexible mocking framework for PHPUnit / Codeception.
Peridot - Event driven BDD test framework for PHP
Faker
php-webdriver - PHP client for Selenium/WebDriver protocol. Previously facebook/php-webdriver