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Marek Matulka
January 14, 2015
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Behat Layered Cake - KaunasPHP
Speed up Behat tests with a clever use of the layered architecture - KaunasPHP meetup edition!
Marek Matulka
January 14, 2015
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Transcript
Behat Layered Cake KaunasPHP edition Kaunas, 14 Jan 2015
Labas vakaras!
@super_marek Marek Matulka
at SensioLabsUK Software Engineer
part of Inviqa Group SensioLabsUK
None
a tool that makes BDD possible
With Behat you can...
With Behat you can... ...write human-readable stories that describe behaviour
of your application.
With Behat you can... ...automate testing of your application’s behaviour
with human-readable examples.
With Behat you can... ...change behaviour of your application with
confidence.
None
Typical dev stack - Vagrant VM - Symfony framework -
mysql or mongodb storage - Linux/OS X host - scrutiniser-ci
A project
That’s sloooow!
Should I get a faster computer?
What is the problem?
Where’s the problem? it takes too much time
Where’s the problem? Guest VM
Where’s the problem? MySQL
Where’s the problem? MySQL inside Guest VM
Let’s try it on the host!
A project
(63 scenarios in 320 steps) vs
But!
What if... my project grows and I’ll have 3000+ steps?
What if I had 3000+ steps? 300 steps took over
10 minutes 3000 steps will take over 100 minutes! (inside guest VM)
What if I had 3000+ steps? 300 steps took over
1 minute 3000 steps will take over 10 minutes! (on host)
How to make it faster?
Disable xdebug extension 30-40% improvement
Replace slow modules with... Replace slow DB with fast in-memory
or file-system persistent storage
Example Controller
Example Controller
(short introduction to) Layered Architecture
Layered Architecture User Interface Application Domain Infrastructure
Dependency Inversion “High level modules should not depend on lower
level implementation” – Good old Uncle Bob
Dependency Inversion Policy Layer <interface> Policy Service Mechanism Layer <interface>
Mechanism Service Utility Layer
(short introduction to) Hexagonal Architecture
Hexagonal Architecture Browser Logs Database Auth Domain
Hexagonal Architecture UI Adapter Log Adapter Data Storage Adapter External
Data Adapter Domain
Hexagonal Architecture UI Adapter Log Adapter Data Storage Adapter Domain
UI client port log adapter port persistence layer port Data Provider Adapter data provider port
Hexagonal Architecture UI Adapter Log Adapter Test Adapter Test Adapter
Data Storage Adapter Test Adapter Domain External Data Adapter Test Adapter
How to do that?
Repository Interface Acme\Learning\Conference Acme\Learning\ConferenceRepository
Repository Interface Acme\Learning\Conference Acme\Learning\ConferenceRepository Domain Port
Describe Communication
Your controller
Spec Controller to use Interface
Spec Controller to use Interface Port
Implement your repository
Implement your repository Port Adapter
Register repository as a Service!
Add another Adapter
Implement your repository
Implement your repository Port Adapter
Register repository as a Service!
Configure the Test env
Prepare Test Infrastructure config_test.yml:
Configure dependency injection
How fast can it be?
MySql Inside Guest VM
MySql On Host
Mocked Storage Inside Guest VM
Mocked Storage On Host
Things to remember
Hexagonal Architecture UI Adapter Log Adapter Test Adapter Test Adapter
Data Storage Adapter Test Adapter Domain External Data Adapter Test Adapter
Integration tests Don’t forget to test your adapters! Use PhpUnit
for that.
Talk to me after presentation! Demo
Questions?
Thank you! https://speakerdeck.com/super_marek @super_marek