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[Testing & Quality](/categories/testing) 4. / 5. friendsofcake/cakephp-test-utilities ActiveLibrary[Testing & Quality](/categories/testing) friendsofcake/cakephp-test-utilities ==================================== Package with support traits to ease unit testing. 3.0.0(2y ago)1172.2k↑33.3%517MITPHP Since Jun 28Pushed 2y ago5 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/cakephp-test-utilities)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/friendsofcake/cakephp-test-utilities)[ Docs](https://github.com/friendsofcake/cakephp-test-utilities)[ RSS](/packages/friendsofcake-cakephp-test-utilities/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 1mo ago READMEChangelog (10)Dependencies (2)Versions (12)Used By (17) Test utilities ============== [](#test-utilities) This package contains support traits to ease unit testing. Installing via composer ----------------------- [](#installing-via-composer) You should install this package into your project using composer. To do so you can run the following command: ``` composer require friendsofcake/cakephp-test-utilities ``` Traits ------ [](#traits) At this point there are two traits: 1. [`AccessibilityHelperTrait`](#accessibilityhelpertrait) : Gain access protected properties and methods. 2. [`CompareTrait`](#comparetrait) : Assert methods, comparing to files for: HTML, JSON, XML ### AccessibilityHelperTrait [](#accessibilityhelpertrait) This trait gains you access to protected properties and methods. You don't need of a new class with pass-through methods. It uses reflection to achieve this. #### Setup [](#setup) Add the trait at the top of your test case: ``` use \FriendsOfCake\TestUtilities\AccessibilityHelperTrait; ``` Now that you have the trait you need to set which object you want to access. You can do this globally for the entire test in `setUp()` or in your test methods: ``` $object = new ObjectIAmGoingToTest(); $this->setReflectionClassInstance($object); $this->defaultReflectionTarget = $object; // (optional) ``` #### Protected properties [](#protected-properties) You can get and set the protected properties: ``` $data = 'FriendsOfCake'; $this->setProtectedProperty('_myProperty', $data, $object); $expected = $data; $actual = $this->getProtectedProperty('_myProperty', $object); $this->assertEquals($expected, $actual); ``` #### Protected methods [](#protected-methods) You can directly call protected methods: ``` $parameters = [$argument1, $argument2]; $expected = $expectedReturnValue; $actual = $this->callProtectedMethod('_myMethod', $parameters, $object); $this->assertEquals($expected, $actual); ``` ### CompareTrait [](#comparetrait) This trait helps with comparing test results as string #### Setup [](#setup-1) Add the trait at the top of your test case and define the `_compareBasePath`property so the trait knows where to look for comparison files: ``` ... use \FriendsOfCake\TestUtilities\CompareTrait; class MyTest extends TestCase { use CompareTrait; public function setUp(): void { parent::setUp(); $this->_compareBasePath = 'comparisons/MyTest/'; } } ``` #### Usage [](#usage) Each of the methods acts similar to the core `assertSameAsFile` method: ``` public function testExample() { $html = 'Some html'; $xml = '...'; $json = ['actually' => 'this is an array']; $this->assertHtmlSameAsFile('some.html', $html); $this->assertXmlSameAsFile('some.xml', $xml); $this->assertJsonSameAsFile('some.json', $json); } ``` See [Cake's docs](https://book.cakephp.org/5/en/development/testing.html#comparing-test-results-to-a-file)for more details on usage of `assertSameAsFile` on which these methods are based. ### Health Score 42 — FairBetter than 90% of packages Maintenance20 Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained Popularity38 Limited adoption so far Community32 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity70 Established project with proven stability Bus Factor2 2 contributors hold 50%+ of commits How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. 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