wp-browser

A WordPress specific set of extensions for Codeception.

The package includes a class extending Codeception PhpBrowser module that adds WordPress related assertions for cest and cept tests, an extension of Codeception own Db module meant to allow for more comfortable WordPress specific database handling and testing and a class taking care of installing and loading a WordPress installation relying on WordPress automated testing suite. While working on the module I've added some methods to the Codeception\Module\Db class to implement CRUDness into it; see below the ExtendedDb class.

Installation

To install simply require the package in the composer.json file like

  "require-dev":
    {
      "lucatume/wp-browser": "master@dev"
    }

and then use composer update to fetch the package.
After that follow the configuration instructions below.

WPBrowser configuration

WPBrowser extends PHPBrowser module hence any parameter required and available to that module is required and available in WPBrowser as well.
In the suite .yml configuration file add the module among the loaded ones

  modules:
      enabled:
          - WPBrowser
      config:
          WPBrowser:
              url: 'http://example.local'
              adminUsername: 'root'
              adminPassword: 'root'
              adminUrl: '/wp-core/wp-admin'

and configure PHPBrowser parameters and the additional ones available to the WPBrowser module:

• adminUsername - the site administrator username (required)
• adminPassword - the site administrator login name (required)
• adminUrl - the relative to the url parameter path to the administration area of the site (required)

WPWebDriver configuration

WPWebDriver extends WebDriver module hence any parameter required and available to that module is required and available in WPWebDriver as well. In the suite .yml configuration file add the module among the loaded ones

  modules:
      enabled:
          - WPWebDriver
      config:
          WPWebDriver:
              url: 'http://example.local'
              browser: phantomjs
              port: 4444
              window_size: '1024x768'
              adminUsername: 'root'
              adminPassword: 'root'
              adminUrl: '/wp-core/wp-admin'

and configure WPWebDriver parameters and the additional ones available to the WPWebDriver module:

• adminUsername - the site administrator username (required)
• adminPassword - the site administrator login name (required)
• adminUrl - the relative to the url parameter path to the administration area of the site (required)

WPDb configuration

The module extends the Db module hence any parameter required and available by the Db module is required and available in the WPDb module as well.
In the suite .yml configuration file add the module among the loaded ones

  modules:
      enabled:
          - WPDb
      config:
          WPDb:
              dsn: 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=testdb'
              user: 'root'
              password: ''
              dump: 'tests/_data/dump.sql'
              populate: true
              cleanup: true
              url: 'http://example.local'
              tablePrefix: 'wp_'
              checkExistence: true
              update: true

and configure Db parameters and the additional ones available to the WPDb module:

• url - the site home url (required)
• tablePrefix - allows specifying the table prefix used in the installation, defaults to "wp_" (optional)
• checkExistence - enables some low level AI on the module side to insert needed elements in the database, e.g. will add a term and post before adding a relation between them; defaults to false (optional)
• update - will try updating the database on duplicate entries; defaults to true (optional)

WPLoader configuration

The module wraps the configuration, installation and loading of a working headless WordPress site for testing purposes. An adaptation of WordPress automated testing suite the module exposes the suite hard-coded value as configuration parameters. In the suite .yml configuration file add the module among the loaded ones

  modules:
      enabled:
          - WPLoader
      config:
          WPLoader:
              wpRootFolder: "/Users/User/www/wordpress"
              dbNAme: "wpress-tests"
              dbHost: "localhost"
              dbUser: "root"
              dbPassword: "root"
              wpDebug: true
              dbCharset: "utf8"
              dbCollate: ""
              tablePrefix: "wptests_"
              domain: "example.org"
              adminEmail: "admin@example.com"
              title: "Test Blog"
              phpBinary: "php"
              language: ""

and configure it using the required parameters:

• wpRootFolder - the absolute path to the root folder of the WordPress installation to use for testing, the ABSPATH global value.
• dbNAme - the name of the database to use for the tests, will be trashed during tests so take care, will be the DB_NAME global.
• dbHost - the host the database can be found at, will be the DB_HOST global.
• dbUser - the database privileged user, should GRANT ALL on the database, will be the DB_USER global.
• dbPassword - the password for the user, will be the DB_PASSWORD global.

Optional parameters are available to the module to reproduce the original testing suite possibilities as closely as possible:

• wpDebug - bool, def. true, the WP_DEBUG global value.
• multisite - bool, def. false, if set to true will create a multisite instllation, the WP_TESTS_MULTISITE global value.
• dbCharset - string, def. utf8, the DB_CHARSET global value.
• dbCollate - string, def. ``, the DB_COLLATE global value.
• tablePrefix - string, def. wptests_, the WP_TESTS_TABLE_PREFIX value.
• domain - string, def. example.org, the root URL of the site, the WP_TESTS_DOMAIN global value.
• adminEmail - string, def. admin@example.org, the admin email, the WP_TEST_EMAIL global value.
• title - string, def. Test Blog, the blog title, the WP_TESTS_TITLE global value.
• phpBinary - string, def. php, the php bin command, the WP_PHP_BINARY global value.
• language - string, def. ``, the installation language, the WPLANG global value.

A word of caution: right now the only way to write tests able to take advantage of the suite is to use the WP_UnitTestCase test case class; while the module will load fine and will raise no problems WP_UnitTestCase will take care of handling the database as intended and using another test case class will almost certainly result in an error if the test case defines more than one test method.

wpcept command

The package will create a link to the bin/wpcept script file; that's an extension of Codeception own codecept CLI application to allow for a WordPress specific setup.

bootstrap

The CLI application adds the bootstrap command argument to allow for a quick WordPress testing environment setup replacing the default bootstrap configuration created by Codeception.

  wpcept bootstrap

The command will generate the "Unit", "Functional" and "Acceptance" suites following the same pattern used by Codeception but with WordPress specific modules:

• Unit with Asserts and UnitHelper modules
• Functional with Filesystem, WPDb, WPLoader and FunctionalHelper modules
• Acceptance with WPBrowser, WPDb and AcceptanceHelper modules

Please note that defautl Codeception suite bootstrapping is available using the codecept bootstrap command.

bootstrap:pyramid

The bootstrap:pyramid command argument allows for a quick WordPress testing environment setup following the test pyramid suite organization.
The command

  wpcept bootstrap:pyramid

will generate the "UI", "Service" and "Unit" suites and will take care of setting up default modules and their settings for each like:

• Unit with Asserts and UnitHelper modules
• Functional with Filesystem, WPDb, WPLoader and FunctionalHelper modules
• Acceptance with WPBrowser, WPDb and AcceptanceHelper modules

generate:wpunit

Generates WP_UnitTestCase classes using the

  wpcept generate:wpunit suite File

The command will generate a skeleton test case like

<?php

class SomeMoreTest extends \WP_UnitTestCase
{
    protected function setUp()
    {
    }

    protected function tearDown()
    {
    }

    // tests
    public function testMe()
    {
    }

}

Any other codecept option remains intact and available.

ExtendedDb configuration

The module has the same configuration as the Db one and hence will not require any additional parameter beside those required/available to the Db module. In the suite .yml configuration file add the module among the loaded ones

  modules:
      enabled:
          - ExtendedDb
      config:
          ExtendedDb:
              dsn: 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=testdb'
              user: 'root'
              password: ''
              dump: 'tests/_data/dump.sql'
              populate: true
              cleanup: true

and configure Db parameters as usual.

Methods

WPBrowser module

The module adds methods that can be used in .cest and .cept methods using the same $I->doSomething syntax used in PhpBrowser.
Included methods are:

  // login as administrator using username and password
  public function loginAsAdmin();

  // login as user
  public function loginAs($username, $password);

  // go the plugins page
  public function amOnPluginsPage();

  // activate a plugin from the plugin page
  public function activatePlugin($pluginSlug);

  // deactivate a plugin from the plugin page
  public function deactivatePlugin($pluginSlug);

  // check that a plugin is installed and deactivated from the plugin page
  public function seePluginDeactivated($pluginSlug);

  // check that a plugin is installed and activated from the plugin page
  public function seePluginActivated($pluginSlug);

  // check that a plugin is installed from the plugin page
  public function seePluginInstalled($pluginSlug);

  // check that a plugin is not installed from the plugin page
  public function doNotSeePluginInstalled($pluginSlug);

  // check for an error admin notice
  public function seeErrorMessage($classes = '');

  // check for an updated admin notice
  public function seeMessage($classes = '');

  // check that the current page is a wp_die generated one
  public function seeWpDiePage();

  // grab all cookies whose name matches a pattern
  public function grabCookiesWithPattern($pattern);

  // grab WordPress test cookie
  public function grabWordPressTestCookie($pattern = null);

  // grab WordPress login cookie
  public function grabWordPressLoginCookie($pattern = null);

  // grab WordPrss auth cookie
  public function grabWordPressAuthCookie($pattern = null);

Methods like seePlugin... require the use of the amOnPluginsPage method before their invocation to navigate PhpBrowser to the right folder.

WPDb module

The module extends Codeception\Module\Db and will hence act as a drop-in replacement for it. It adds an optional tablePrefix configuration parameter, defaulting to wp, and will require the same parameters as the original module.
The module is meant to be a WordPress specific extension of the Db module and will hence decline the have and see methods for each WordPress table. As an example the methods for the options table are

  public function haveOptionInDatabase($option_name, $option_value);
  
  public function haveSerializedOptionInDatabase($option_name, $option_value);
  
  public function seeOptionInDatabase($option_name, $option_value);
  
  public function dontSeeOptionInDatabase($option_name, $option_value);
  
  public function seeSerializedOptionInDatabase($option_name, $option_value);
  
  public function dontSeeSerializedOptionInDatabase($option_name, $option_value);

see source for all methods.
I've added additional methods to have full control on the database setup and be able to remove entries from each table like:

  public function dontHaveOptionInDatabase(array $criteria);

  public function dontHaveUserInDatabase(array $criteria);

  public function dontHavePostInDatabase(array $criteria);

wrapping the ExtendedDb::dontHaveInDatabase method for quicker and clearer access; a dontHaveSomethinInDatabase method exists for each table, take a look at the source to see them all.

ExtendedDb module

The module is an extension of the Codeception\Module\Db class implementing some methods to allow for more CRUD complete operations on the database with the methods

  public function dontHaveInDatabase($table, array $criteria);

  public function haveOrUpdateInDatabase($table, array $data)