In a Nutshell
Codeception is a new full-stack testing PHP framework. Inspired by BDD, it provides you absolutely new original way for writing acceptance, functional and even unit tests.Describe what you test and how you test it. Use PHP to write descriptions faster. Run tests and see what actions were taken and what results were seen.
Sample acceptance test
<?php
$I = new TestGuy($scenario);
$I->wantTo('create wiki page');
$I->amOnPage('/');
$I->click('Pages');
$I->click('New');
$I->see('New Page');
$I->submitForm('form#new', array('title' => 'Hobbit', 'body' => 'From Peter Jackson'));
$I->see('page created'); // notice generated
$I->see('Hobbit','h1'); // head of page of is our title
$I->seeInCurrentUrl('pages/hobbit'); // slug is generated
$I->seeInDatabase('pages', array('title' => 'Hobbit')); // data is stored in database
?>
Similar approach is used for unit testing. Unique helpers improve writing unit tests by providing simple helpers for stubbing, mocking, testing database, etc.
Sample unit test
<?php
class UserControllerCest {
public $class = 'UserController';
public function createAction(CodeGuy $I)
{
$I->haveFakeClass($userController = Stub::make('UserController'));
$I->executeTestedMethodOn($userController, array('username' => 'MilesDavis', 'email' => 'miles@davis.com'))
->seeResultEquals(true)
->seeMethodInvoked($userController, 'renderHtml')
->seeInDabatase('users', array('username' => 'MilesDavis'));
}
}
?>
If you don't really like writing unit tests in DSL, Codeception can run PHPUnit tests natively.