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Ward Bekker
Ward Bekker

Reputation: 6366

Property based testing in PHP?

In various more functional based languages there are tools (like Quickcheck) which allow for property based testing.

How would I go about property based testing in PHP?

I would like to be able to specify the in and output properties of a PHP method, and run coverage tests.

Upvotes: 15

Views: 3727

Answers (2)

Potherca
Potherca

Reputation: 14630

There are currently two libraries that offer property based testing functionality in PHP:

  • Eris which is a PHP port based on Haskell's QuickCheck
  • PhpQuickCheck which is a PHP port based on clojure.test.check.

Eris has been build to work well with the PHPUnit ecosystem out-of-the-box.

PhpQuickCheck has been built to work standalone but can also be used in combination with PhpUnit and it's @dataprovider functionality. There is an example of this in the repository.

Upvotes: 17

Boy Who Roared
Boy Who Roared

Reputation: 105

You can have a go with the Faker library: https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker. It won't do the testing for you, but it's great for generating the random data.

Upvotes: 2

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