Running Tests for the HPCloud-PHP bindings

This file explains how to configured your environment for running the HPCloud automated testing.

The HPCloud bindings offer a few stand-alone tests for testing basic connectivity to the HPCloud services, but most tests are of the automated variety.

IMPORTANT: Make sure your settings.ini file is up-to-date! Options have changed!

Stand-alone Tests

Stand-alone tests are designed to verify that certain preconditions of the libary are met.

AuthTest.php

The AuthTest test is a simple commandline program that allows you to verify that your PHP client can successfully connect to the HP Cloud. To run this test, do the following:

  1. Begin from the root directory of this project, where you should see the directories test/ and src/, among others.
  2. Execute the following command on the commandline:
$ php test/AuthTest.php

This will instruct you to use a more complete version of the command, including:

  • ID: The ID given to you by HP Cloud.
  • KEY: Your account's key.
  • TENANT ID: Your account's tenant ID.
  • URL: The Endpoint URL.

All four pieces of information can be found by logging into the console and going to the section called Storage. There should be a link on that page that says Get Storage API Keys. That page displays all four pieces of required information.

From there, you can execute a command like this:

$ php test/AuthTest.php 123made-up-key  456made-up-secret https://region-a.geo-1.objects.hpcloudsvc.com/auth/v1.0/ 1234567

If successfull, it should return details about your username, token, and the services in your service catalog.

Unit Tests

Unit and behavioral tests are built using PHPUnit. Before you can test this package, you will need to install that tool.

Next, you need to create your own settings.ini file to contain your HP Cloud credentials, along with your preferred testing parameters.

Creating settings.ini

The easiest way to do this is to copy the example settings file, and then make the necessary changes:

$ cd test/
$ cp example.settings.ini settings.ini
$ edit settings.ini

Your settings should look something like this:

; Settings to work with swift:
; hpcloud.swift.account = 12345678:87654321
; hpcloud.swift.key = abcdef123456
; hpcloud.swift.url = https://region-a.geo-1.objects.hpcloudsvc.com/auth/v1.0/

hpcloud.swift.container = "I♡HPCloud"

hpcloud.identity.url = https://region-a.geo-1.idenity.hpcloudsvc.com
hpcloud.identity.tenantId = 12345
hpcloud.identity.username = butcher@hp.com
hpcloud.identity.password = secret
hpcloud.identity.account =  54321
hpcloud.identity.key = 9878787

You will need to add all of the hpcloud.identity settings, and all of this information can be found on your console.

The hpcloud.swift.account, key, and url params are no longer required for the basic tests, but are required if you are also running the tests in the group deprecated.

Running Tests with Make

The Makefile included with the HPCloud library can run the tests. Beginning from the root directory of the project, simply type the following:

$ make test

By default, this will run ALL of the unit tests. However, you can run a subset of the tests using the TESTS argument:

$ make test TESTS="test/Tests/BootstrapTest.php test/Tests/ACLTest.php"

If you know which group of tests you want to run, you can run just a select group of tests using the test-group target:

$ make test-group GROUP=deprecated

The above will run all of the unit tests in the @group deprecated group. (Note: the library does not use group tests very often, so this is unlikely to be a commonly required feature.)

Running Tests Using phpunit

If for some reason the Makefile doesn't suite your needs, you have the option of running the tests directly using phpunit.

Beginning from the root directory of the project (you should see src/ and test/ in that directory), run this command to execute all of the tests:

$ phpunit test/Tests

This should generate output looking something like this:

phpunit test/Tests
PHPUnit 3.6.3 by Sebastian Bergmann.

..................................................

Time: 01:24, Memory: 6.50Mb

OK (50 tests, 125 assertions)

If the tests fail, detailed information about the failure will be displayed.

PHPUnit has a wide variety of commandline options. Other sorts of reports and analyses can be done using those.

Writing Tests

Tests should be written according to the PHPUnit documentation. Tests should follow the same coding standards as all other parts of the library, with one caveat: The namespaces for tests are still non-standard.

The different namespacing is an historical relic resulting from two things:

  • Originally, we used Atoum, which ascribes additional semantic (testing) value to namespaces.
  • PHPUnit's namespacing support is relatively new.

Eventually, the namespaces for the unit tests will all be standardized, too.