PHP Development With WordPress Plugin

PHP code goes in the directory “php” or “tests”. The psr-4 standard is used for file and class naming. Composer is used for an autoloader and for dev dependencies.

The php tests are separated into two genres: unit – located in /tests/Unit – and integration – located in /tests/Integration.

Unit Tests

Unit Testing Classes That Call Functions From WordPress core

These tests do NOT run with WordPress and MySQL and are run with phpunit.

• Install for development
  • composer install
• Run unit tests
  • composer test

The following unit testing tools are installed:

• Yoast/yoast-test-helper - Provides assertions from nwer versions of phpunit so we can use a WordPress-compatible version.
• Mockery - For mocking classes.
• Brain Monkey - For monkey-patching functions.

Integration Tests

• These tests are dependent on WordPress and MySQL and are run with phpunit.

• Run WordPress Integration Tests

  • If supplying your own test setup and database:
    • composer test:wordpress
  • Using supplied docker-compose:
    • docker-compose run phpunit
      • This puts you inside phpunit container with database setup.
    • composer install # install for development inside of the container.
    • composer:test:wordpress
  • Using futureys/phpunit-wordpress-plugin