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view-components/testing-helpers
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Helpers for view-components testing

v2.0.3(9y ago)11.3k[4 issues](https://github.com/view-components/testing-helpers/issues)7MITPHPPHP ^5.5||^7

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Testing Helpers for ViewComponents
==================================

[](#testing-helpers-for-viewcomponents)

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This repository contains utilities for testing PHP packages of ViewComponents family.

1. Overview
-----------

[](#1-overview)

### 1.1. Web Application

[](#11-web-application)

Package contains simple ready to use web-application based on Silex for components show-case and acceptance tests.

#### 1.1.1. Installation

[](#111-installation)

If your package needs this web-application, add post-install script to composer.json:

```
"scripts": {
        "post-install-cmd": [
            "ViewComponents\\TestingHelpers\\Installer\\Installer::postComposerInstall"
        ]
},
```

Post-install script will allow to configure web-application using command-line interface. If you use `composer install` command with `-no-interaction` option, default settings will be used.

#### 1.1.2. Extending web-application

[](#112-extending-web-application)

Packages that uses view-components/testing helpers can extend this application by adding it's controllers to WEBAPP\_CONTROLLERS environmant variable.

Routing will be automatically generated using [EasyRouting](https://github.com/view-components/testing-helpers/blob/master/src/Application/Http/EasyRouting.php) class.

#### 1.1.3. Running web-application

[](#113-running-web-application)

Package contains [serve command](https://github.com/view-components/testing-helpers/blob/master/serve) that is published to vendor/bin by composer.

Run it from your package folder to start web-server:

```
./vendor/bin/serve
```

On Windows OS it will also open web-application in browser after starting web-server.

### 1.2. Acceptance tests with PhpUnit

[](#12-acceptance-tests-with-phpunit)

#### 1.2.1. Starting & shutting down web-server during tests

[](#121-starting--shutting-down-web-server-during-tests)

Use vendor/view-components/testing-helpers/bootstrap/tests\_bootstrap.php as bootstrap file if you need to implement acceptance tests using PhpUnit.

#### 1.2.2. Abstract acceptance test.

[](#122-abstract-acceptance-test)

Use ViewComponents\\TestingHelpers\\Test\\Acceptance\\AbstractAcceptanceTest as base class for your acceptance tests. It allows to perform http requests using GuzzleHttp package and contains helper methods for assertions.

### 1.3. Fixtures

[](#13-fixtures)

Package provides set of fixtures for testing. It consists of data that is seeded to database during installation and same data in form of php array.

2. Installation
---------------

[](#2-installation)

Testing Helpers can be installed via composer.

**Important**: Do not add `view-components/testing-helpers` to `require` section of composer.json. It must be added to `require-dev` section.

3. License
----------

[](#3-license)

© 2016 Vitalii Stepanenko

Licensed under the MIT License.

Please see [License File](LICENSE) for more information.

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance0

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity17

Limited adoption so far

Community14

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity68

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~5 days

Recently: every ~20 days

Total

24

Last Release

3611d ago

Major Versions

v1.11.0 → v2.0.02016-04-07

PHP version history (2 changes)v1.0.0PHP >=5.4.0

v1.2.1PHP ^5.5||^7

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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