Testing

Setup a testing environment with PHPUnit

Follow the setup steps for Varying Vagrant Vagrants. If you’re having trouble I recommend starting 100% fresh (uninstall and delete everything including VirtualBox). For this walk-through we’re going to start from scratch:

1. Install VVV

Follow the setup instructions — don't forget to install VirtualBox and Vagrant first! For this tutorial I'm going to assume you've installed into ~/vagrant-local/

2. Set up Timber for tests

Navigate into the www directory and clone Timber...

$ cd ~/vagrant-local/www/
$ git clone [email protected]:timber/timber.git

Now install the necessary Composer files...

$ cd timber
$ composer install

Ok, you should be ready to run tests. This is where things get interesting. You're going to login to your Vagrant virtual box to run the tests...

3. Run the tests!

Connect to your Vagrant instance trough SSH:

$ vagrant ssh

Now wait for it to bring you into the virtual box from the virtual environment...

$ cd /srv/www/timber
$ phpunit

You should see a bunch of gobbledygook across your screen (the whole process will take about 3 mins.), but we should see that WordPress is testing successfully. Hurrah! For more info, check out the Handbook on Automated Testing.

Writing tests

Now we get to the good stuff. You can add tests to the timber/tests directory. Any new features should be covered by tests. You can be a hero and help write tests for existing methods and functionality.

Gotchas!

• You may need to setup authorization between VVV and GitHub. Just follow the prompts to create a token if that interrupts the composer install.
• You may have memory problems with Composer. In case that happens, here’s the script I run:

sudo /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.1 bs=1M count=1024
sudo /sbin/mkswap /var/swap.1
sudo /sbin/swapon /var/swap.1