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One of the trickiest aspects of unit testing or Test Driving an application's code is testing those parts of the system which depend on an external system, such as a database or a SOAP service.
In this post I'll outline an approach to testing a class which happens to communicate with a third-party SOAP service using PHP's built-in SoapClient class. Hopefully, the principles involved will be applicable to the more general case of testing code which relies on an external system.
Just a quick post to mention that, yes, my commitment to TDD show no signs of abating, especially in the face of the various unfamiliar technologies with which I've been working recently.
Today I came across JsUnit. Which may be old news to many, but I don't stray into JavaScript territory very often, and when I do, I'm usually quite frightened!
Read more »I've been spending increasing amounts of time recently getting to grips with Unit Testing and the Test-Driven "way". It can be hugely satisfying, but more often than not I'm finding it painfully frustrating. Don't get me wrong, I know it's the right way to go about things, I don't need any convincing. I did some growing up in public thanks to the lovely Advanced-PHP folks at Sitepoint, but I'm not there yet.
The best fully Test-Driven code I've managed so far is PHPTuring, and I'm trying to rewrite Briolette using TDD, but it's slow going. (If anyone of any talent is interested in helping develop a TDD MVC framework in PHP5, I'd be interested to hear from you).
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