PHPUnit – Unit & Selenium Testing For PHP Developers

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: What is PHPUnit and why it is very useful thing to learn. How you will learn it

Lecture 2: Let's see PHPUnit in action!

Lecture 3: Course structure

Lecture 4: Overview of an application that we will build using PHPUnit and TDD approach

Lecture 5: How to benefit from these course as much as is possible

Lecture 6: How the course videos & resources look like

Chapter 2: PHPUnit basics

Lecture 1: PHPUnit requirements and installation using Composer tool

Lecture 2: PHPUnit command line

Lecture 3: Write our first PHPUnit test

Lecture 4: Error output

Lecture 5: TestDox – Agile style test results

Lecture 6: Most common assertions in PHPUnit

Lecture 7: Most common annotations in PHPUnit

Lecture 8: Data providers

Lecture 9: Test dependencies

Lecture 10: Test errors and exceptions

Chapter 3: PHPUnit configuration

Lecture 1: Apply coloring console test output and testdox automatically

Lecture 2: Organize test suite using XML configuration file

Lecture 3: Create PHP constants in XML configuration file

Chapter 4: PHPUnit – dive deeper

Lecture 1: Fixtures – setup initial state before testing

Lecture 2: Test private & protected attributes

Lecture 3: Use anonymous classes to mock objects without setter method

Lecture 4: Test private & protected methods

Lecture 5: PHPUnit with interfaces

Lecture 6: PHPUnit with abstract classes

Lecture 7: Test static methods

Lecture 8: Risky, incomplete and skipped tests

Lecture 9: Custom assertions

Lecture 10: Code Coverage Analysis

Chapter 5: Test Doubles & mocking real objects – replacing real objects for testing

Lecture 1: Stubs

Lecture 2: Mock Objects

Lecture 3: Mocking traits and abstract classes

Lecture 4: Mocking web services

Chapter 6: Acceptance (not only unit) testing with PHPUnit. Use Selenium

Lecture 1: Different types of tests

Lecture 2: Install Selenium WebDriver and create first acceptance test in PHPUnit

Lecture 3: Getting elements on websites using Selenium WebDriver

Lecture 4: Clicking links using Selenium WebDriver

Lecture 5: Setting values for inputs and sending forms using Selenium WebDriver

Lecture 6: Mark your test as incomplete. Deal with cookies

Lecture 7: Assert delayed content, e.g. loaded by Ajax

Chapter 7: TDD – test driven development with PHPUnit & Selenium

Lecture 1: TDD cycle – test, code, refactor

Lecture 2: Slim PHP micro framework crash course (OPTIONAL)

Lecture 3: HTML layout for our example app using Zurb Foundation framework

Lecture 4: Install and configure PHPUnit & Selenium Web Driver

Lecture 5: Test proper strings on the main page

Lecture 6: Test confirmation box when trying to delete a category

Lecture 7: Assert existing links to edit and delete a category

Lecture 8: Click edit link and see proper stuff for this on the website

Lecture 9: Test validation of the html form

Lecture 10: Test visibility of categories in the menu

Lecture 11: Convert database result into nested PHP array – part 1

Lecture 12: Convert database result into nested PHP array – part 2

Lecture 13: Refactor the code used for testing conversion of database result

Lecture 14: Convert PHP array into HTML nested list – part 1

Lecture 15: Convert PHP array into HTML nested list – part 2

Lecture 16: Install Laravel Eloquent ORM to manage database operations

Lecture 17: Use Laravel models to interact with the database

Lecture 18: Display categories dynamically from the database

Lecture 19: Enable adding child categories to the Laravel Category Model

Lecture 20: Convert categories array from database to html nested ul li list

Lecture 21: Improve our tests

Lecture 22: Delete parent category and its children

Lecture 23: Show chosen category dynamically

Lecture 24: Make input values dynamic when a category is edited

Lecture 25: Show categories for html select list dynamically

Lecture 26: Test correct parent category for edited one

Lecture 27: Test editing category

Lecture 28: Test adding a new category

Lecture 29: Add redirection to some actions

Lecture 30: Practice activity – refactor the code

Lecture 31: Practice activity – build this app again with your framework or in plain PHP

Chapter 8: Testing REST API's with PHPUnit, Guzzle & Json Server

Lecture 1: Install PHPUnit and Guzzle PHP HTTP client

Lecture 2: Testing live api – not recommended

Lecture 3: Prepare for right testing – refactor the code

Lecture 4: Mock api responses to test read requests

Lecture 5: Install Json Server and test GET api request

Lecture 6: Test POST and DELETE requests

Lecture 7: Test PATCH and PUT requests