#phpspec

Teaching Function Mocker new tricks

Adding some power to the the mocking engine. Uneducated and powerful The function-mocker mocking engine was born out of three needs of mine: mocking functions mocking static methods easier instance method mocking, spying and setting of expectations Until now it held to this needs allowing some mocking and expectation that comes “handy” in WordPress not-so-test-friendly environment $mock_dbDelta =…

PHPSpec PHPStorm live template

I’ve been playing around with phpspec lately and am very much enjoying the design principles its limitations impose. Being a PhpStorm user I’ve created an handy template to speed up spec writing. Here it is the live template

/** * it $description$ */ public function it_$method$() { $END$ }

and here is the screenshot to deal with the automation of its

Faster dependency mocking 03

I’m trying to approach the problem of dependency mocking from another side and come up with a lateral solution to the problem based on ad-hoc adapters.

The problem

While developing for WordPress I’ve been using adapter class to abstract my objects for globally defined functions and methods, see tad_FunctionsAdapter and tad_GlobalsAdapter classes in the tdd-helperspackage, and those will rely…

I’ve grown fond of PHPSpec and the way it “forces” me to write almost logic-less constructors. I wanted something like testify to make writing specs as easy as possible and came up with Specify.

Usage

The plugin allows writing specs using natural language like

given ClassOne $classOne given ClassTwo $classtwo it should do something it should not do something it should do something with a really…

A fun post outlining 7 reasons why you should be using phpspec.

Number 6 is my favorite:

I'm loving opinionated software more and more:

Z podsumowania: No more phpunit tests, this is the new era of better thought and better theologians hopefully!