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:

class PermissionsTestCase extends CakeWebTestCase {
        var $mysite = "http://test.mysite.com";

        function setUp() {

        }
        function tearDown() {

        }
        function testMe() {
                $this->setMaximumRedirects(0);

                $result = $this->get($this->mysite . "/");

                $this->assertResponse(302);

                $this->assertHeader("Location", $this->mysite . "/users/login", "Homepage redirects to login");

        }

}

?>

The “setMaximumRedirects” is there because WebTestCase will, by default, follow 3 redirects. Here I tell it not to, then I get a page and check the status code and the header.

Lots of stuff you can test specific to a web page: http://simpletest.org/api/SimpleTest/WebTester/WebTestCase.html