Trying to figure out how to write a test based on screen scraping. Easiest example is to make sure that certain URIs redirect to the login screen.
Created an “automated” dir under app/tests/cases/, with a file called permissions.test.php:
<?php
class PermissionsTestCase extends CakeWebTestCase {
var $mysite = “http://test.mysite.com”;
[…]
Testing models is straightforward, see http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/testing-models-with-cakephp-1-2-test-suite
Testing a controller though… Why is there nothing good out there that tells you how to test a controller, other than references to Felix’s work that doesn’t use simpletest?
That said, testing a controller should look something like
- Create controller object
- Call an action
- Poke at the controller to make […]
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