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Friday, 29 August 2008Zend Framework testing: emulating HTTP calls
Following last month's article by Ian, here's some thoughts on how to test a Zend Framework application.
One of the unit testing best practices suggests to break dependencies, so you can test each component separately. The first problem that arises when you want to test controllers might be having a tighter control over the HTTP Request and Response objects. Fortunately, ZF already has something that really makes your life easier, i.e. the Zend_Test_PHPUnit_ControllerTestCase class, which has stubs for the Request and Response objects, and you can easily check headers, return codes, routes, redirects, and even the view itself. Ga door met lezen van "Zend Framework testing: emulating HTTP calls" Sunday, 27 July 2008Dependency Injection and Zend Framework ControllersAmong the standard object oriented principles is favouring composition over inheritance, and there are plenty of design patterns that work along this line. However, one of the most useful day-to-day facets of the idea doesn't seem to get a lot of attention from PHP developers, namely dependency injection. The general idea is, that if your class depends on some other object, that object should be passed in rather than generated internally or retrieved via a global variable or singleton. Ga door met lezen van "Dependency Injection and Zend Framework Controllers"
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