This is the quick-start to CodeIgniter testing. Its intent is to describe what it takes to get your system setup and ready to run the system tests. It is not intended to be a full description of the test features that you can use to test your application, since that can be found in the documentation.
It is recommended to use the latest version of PHPUnit. At the time of this
writing we are running version 9.x. Support for this has been built into the
composer.json file that ships with CodeIgniter, and can easily be installed
via Composer if you don't already have it installed globally.
composer update
If running under OS X or Linux, you can create a symbolic link to make running tests a touch nicer.
ln -s ./vendor/bin/phpunit ./phpunit
The entire test suite can be ran by simply running the command below:
vendor/bin/phpunit
To run the specific test suite for a locale, simply provide the class name of the locale-specific test:
vendor/bin/phpunit --filter FrenchTranslationTest
Locale-specific test class names follow the named regex pattern /^(?P<locale>[A-Za-z]+)TranslationTest$/.
The repository has a phpunit.xml.dist file in the project root, used for
PHPUnit configuration. This is used as a default configuration if you
do not have your own phpunit.xml in the project root.
The normal practice would be to copy phpunit.xml.dist to phpunit.xml (which is git ignored),
and to tailor yours as you see fit.