FireTest – Example Unit Testing Individual Classes Without A Framework

I recently got a request on how you might Unit Test an individual class that doesn’t belong to a framework. So, here’s an example class we will be unit testing using FireTest.

Let’s start out by creating a new project from scratch:

mkdir fire-test-example
cd fire-test-example
composer init
...
composer require ua1-labs/firetest

Now, update composer.json to include the test runner file script.

"scripts": {
    "test": "php vendor/ua1-labs/firetest/scripts/runner.php --dir=/. --ext=.TestCase.php"
}

Now let’s create our example class at src/FormPost.php

<?php

use \Exception;

class FormPost
{
    public $writeToDb;

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->writeToDb = false;
    }

    public function handleFormPost()
    {
        $firstName = isset($_POST['firstName']) ? $_POST['firstName'] : '';
        $lastName = isset($_POST['lastName']) ? $_POST['lastName'] : '';
        if ($this->validateFormData($firstName, $lastName)) {
            $this->writeToDatabase($firstName, $lastName);
        } else {
            throw new Exception('Please fill in all form data.');
        }
    }

    private function validateFormData($firstName, $lastName)
    {
        // code to verify form data
        if (!$firstName || !$lastName) {
            return false;
        }

        return true;
    }

    private function writeToDatabase()
    {
        // code to write to database
        $this->writeToDb = true;
    }

}

Now add it to Composer’s Autoload schema by adding the following lines to the composer.json file.

"autoload": {
    "files": ["src/FormPost.php"]
}

Now, let’s create our src/FormPost.TestCase.php file. I’ve already created the unit test scenarios we are going to test for.

<?php

use \UA1Labs\Fire\Test\TestCase;

class FormPostTestCase extends TestCase
{

    private $formPost;

    public function beforeEach()
    {
        $_POST = [];
        $this->formPost = new FormPost();
    }

    public function testHandleFormPost()
    {
        $this->should('Validate a form and write the values to a database.');
        $_POST['firstName'] = 'UA1';
        $_POST['lastName'] = 'LABS';
        $this->formPost->handleFormPost();
        $this->assert($this->formPost->writeToDb === true);
    }

    public function testHandleFormPostBadRequest()
    {
        $this->should('Throw an Exception because form data is missing.');
        try{
            $this->formPost->handleFormPost();
            $this->assert(false);
        } catch (Exception $e) {
            $this->assert(true);
        }
    }

}

Now that you have your Class and your TestCase file, you are ready to run the unit tests. Remember before we added a run script to the composer.json file? We are now going to run that.

composer run test

Or just run the runner script using the PHP command:

php vendor/ua1-labs/firetest/scripts/runner.php --dir=/. --ext=.TestCase.php

You will get the following results:

FireTest: *************************************************************
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FireTest: ██╔════╝██║██╔══██╗██╔════╝╚══██╔══╝██╔════╝██╔════╝╚══██╔══╝
FireTest: █████╗ ██║██████╔╝█████╗ ██║ █████╗ ███████╗ ██║   
FireTest: ██╔══╝ ██║██╔══██╗██╔══╝ ██║ ██╔══╝ ╚════██║ ██║   
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FireTest: ╚═╝ ╚═╝╚═╝ ╚═╝╚══════╝ ╚═╝ ╚══════╝╚══════╝ ╚═╝   
FireTest: *************************************************************
FireTest: [STARTING] Test suite is located at "/home/tutorials/fire-test-example/src"
FireTest: [STARTING] Finding all files with the extension ".TestCase.php"
FireTest: [LOADING] Test file "/home/tutorials/fire-test-example/src/FormPost.TestCase.php"
FireTest: [LOADING] Test class "FormPostTestCase"
FireTest: [RUNNING] FormPostTestCase::testHandleFormPost()
FireTest: [PASSED] Validate a form and write the values to a database.
FireTest: [RESULT] (Passed: 1, Failed: 0)
FireTest: [RUNNING] FormPostTestCase::testHandleFormPostBadRequest()
FireTest: [PASSED] Throw an Exception because form data is missing.
FireTest: [RESULT] (Passed: 1, Failed: 0)
FireTest: ***********************************************************
FireTest: ███████╗██╗ ██╗ ██████╗ ██████╗███████╗███████╗███████╗
FireTest: ██╔════╝██║ ██║██╔════╝██╔════╝██╔════╝██╔════╝██╔════╝
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FireTest: ╚════██║██║ ██║██║ ██║ ██╔══╝ ╚════██║╚════██║
FireTest: ███████║╚██████╔╝╚██████╗╚██████╗███████╗███████║███████║
FireTest: ╚══════╝ ╚═════╝ ╚═════╝ ╚═════╝╚══════╝╚══════╝╚══════╝
FireTest: ***********************************************************
FireTest: [FINAL] (Passed: 2, Failed: 0)

Happy coding!

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