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Freek Van der Herten
September 07, 2017
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Transcript
A practical intro to snapshot testing and PHPUnit-watcher
About me Freek Van der Herten Partner & developer at
SPATIE Blogging at https://murze.be https://murze.be/newsletter
OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
https://spatie.be/en/opensource/laravel
Open source software ± 160 public repositories on GitHub August
2016: ± 800 000 downloads August 2017: ± 5 000 000 downloads ± 500 000 downloads a month
LET’S TALK SNAPSHOT TESTING
A file on disk, let’s call in snapshot Test succeeds
if output matches snapshot If not, test will fail What?
Another name: characterization testing Popularized by Facebook Jest Testing interfaces
Where does it come from?
https://github.com/spatie/phpunit-snapshot-assertions assertMatchesSnapshot assertMatchesJsonSnapshot assertMatchesXmlSnapshot How can we do it in
PHP?
DEMO
WRAPPING UP
Advantages Very easy to get started with Can be used
to validate complex output Easily update all the tests in one go
Disadvantages Brittle Hard to pinpoint exact point of failure Bugs
can be easily written in the snapshots
https://github.com/spatie/phpunit-snapshot-assertions https://sebastiandedeyne.com/posts/2017/a-package-for-snapshot- testing-in-phpunit https://murze.be/2017/04/practical-introduction-snapshot-testing/ https://www.sitepoint.com/snapshot-testing-viable-php/ https://facebook.github.io/jest/docs/snapshot-testing.html https://github.com/spatie/phpunit-watcher Interesting links
Thank you! https://speakerdeck.com/freekmurze/snapshot-testing-phplimburg https://spatie.be/opensource https://murze.be https://murze.be/newsletter/
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