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System testing (browser based) package for Joomla

Abstract

This repo is meant to hold the browser based system test (codeception tests) for Joomla 4.

Installation

For Linux

1. Open a session and change to the document root of your local webserver.

$ cd /var/www/html/
/var/www/html$

2. Clone the current joomla repository into your webserver root folder

/var/www/html$ git clone git@github.com:joomla/joomla-cms.git
Clone into 'joomla-cms' ...
...

Are you new with github? Here you can find informations about setting it up: https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git/ If you get an error you can try git clone https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms.git instead of git clone git@github.com:joomla/joomla-cms.git

3. Change to the directory joomla-cms and make sure that you are on the 4.0-dev branch

Change to the directory:

/var/www/html$ cd joomla-cms
/var/www/html/joomla-cms$

Make sure you are on the correct branch:

/var/www/html/joomla-cms$ git branch
* staging
/var/www/html/joomla-cms$ git fetch origin 4.0-dev:4.0-dev
/var/www/html/joomla-cms$ git checkout 4.0-dev
/var/www/html/joomla-cms$ git branch
* 4.0-dev
 staging

4. Your joomla-cms folder should contain this files:

/var/www/html/joomla-cms$ ls
acceptance.suite.yml cli Gemfile jenkins-phpunit.xml modules RoboFile.php web.config.txt
administrator codeception.yml htaccess.txt karma.conf.js package.json robots.txt.dist
appveyor-phpunit.xml components images language phpunit.xml.dist scss-lint.yml
build composer.json includes layouts plugins templates
build.js composer.lock index.php libraries README.md tests
build.xml dev installation LICENSE.txt README.txt tmp
cache drone-package.json Jenkinsfile media RoboFile.dist.ini travisci-phpunit.xml

5. Optional: Have a look into composer.json for information what software you will install via composer.

/var/www/html/joomla-cms$ cat composer.json

Read more about how to install composer here.

6. Install via composer

/var/www/html/joomla-cms$ composer install
Loading composer repositories with package information
Installing dependencies (including require-dev) from lock file
Package operations: 63 installs, 0 updates, 0 removals
 - Installing behat/gherkin (v4.4.5): Downloading (100%)
 - Installing sebastian/recursion-context (3.0.0): Downloading (100%)
...
 - Installing joomla/test-system (dev-master ca3879f): Cloning ca3879f603
...
Generating optimized autoload files

Now you see this repo in the folder /var/www/html/joomla-cms/libraries/vendor/joomla/test-system

7. Optional: Prepare the database

If you use MySQL or PostgreSQL as database and your user has create database privileges the Database is automatically created by the Joomla installer. But the safest way is to create the database before running Joomla's web installer.

/var/www/html/joomla-cms$ mysql -u root -p

mysql> create database test_joomla;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0,00 sec)

mysql> quit;
Bye

8. Update the file acceptance.suite.yml to your needs.

Important are the options

• url in the section JoomlaBrowser and Helper\Acceptance,
• database name and
• database user.
• database password.

/var/www/html/joomla-cms$ cat acceptance.suite.yml

class_name: AcceptanceTester
modules:
 enabled:
 - Asserts
 - JoomlaBrowser
 - Helper\Acceptance
 config:
 JoomlaBrowser:
 url: 'http://localhost/joomla-cms/test-install' # the url that points to the joomla installation at /tests/system/joomla-cms
 browser: chrome
 window_size: 1280x1024
 username: 'admin' # UserName for the Administrator
 password: 'admin' # Password for the Administrator
 database host: 'localhost' # place where the Application is Hosted #server Address
 database user: 'root' # MySQL Server user ID, usually root
 database password: 'YOURDBPASSWORD' # MySQL Server password, usually empty or root
 database name: 'test_joomla' # DB Name, at the Server
 database type: 'mysqli' # type in lowercase one of the options: MySQL\MySQLi\PDO
 database prefix: 'jos_' # DB Prefix for tables
 install sample data: 'no' # Do you want to Download the Sample Data Along with Joomla Installation, then keep it Yes
 sample data: 'Default English (GB) Sample Data' # Default Sample Data
 admin email: 'admin@mydomain.com' # email Id of the Admin
 language: 'English (United Kingdom)' # Language in which you want the Application to be Installed
 Helper\Acceptance:
 url: 'http://localhost/joomla-cms/test-install' # the url that points to the joomla installation at /tests/system/joomla-cms - we need it twice here
 MicrosoftEdgeInsiders: false # set this to true, if you are on Windows Insiders

error_level: "E_ALL & ~E_STRICT & ~E_DEPRECATED"

9. Copy the file acceptance.suite.yml to this repo.

Currently we need the configuation file twice!

/var/www/html/joomla-cms$ cp acceptance.suite.yml ./libraries/vendor/joomla/test-system/src

10. Optional: Create and edit the file RoboFile.ini.

/var/www/html/joomla-cms$ cat RoboFile.ini
; If you want to setup your test website (document root) in a different folder, you can do that here.
; You can also set an absolute path, i.e. /path/to/my/cms/folder
cmsPath = test-install

; (Linux / Mac only) If you want to set a different owner for the CMS root folder, you can set it here.
localUser =

11. Optional: Set use owner of the project to your user.

Change the username/usergroup of the files by traveling the directories recursively. This is made possible by the ‘-R’ option.

/var/www/html/joomla-cms$sudo chown -R username:usergroup /var/www/html/joomla-cms

Running - Ready! Run the first tests

For Linux

/var/www/html/joomla-cms$ libraries/vendor/bin/robo run:tests➜ Running tests
 [Filesystem\DeleteDir] Deleted test-install...
 [Filesystem\CopyDir] Copied from ./media to test-install/media
 [Filesystem\CopyDir] Copied from ./nbproject to test-install/nbproject
 [Filesystem\CopyDir] Copied from ./images to test-install/images
 [Filesystem\CopyDir] Copied from ./libraries to test-install/libraries
...

Now a browser window opens and you can see the tests running in it.

If you get an error like this

/var/www/html/joomla-cms$ libraries/vendor/bin/robo run:tests
➜ Running tests
 [Filesystem\CopyDir] Copied from ./media to test-install/media
 [Filesystem\CopyDir] Copied from ./nbproject to test-install/nbproject
 [Filesystem\CopyDir] Copied from ./images to test-install/images
 [error] Failed to copy "./libraries/vendor/consolidation/robo/scenarios/symfony2/tests" because file does not exist.

you have to delete two files:

/var/www/html/joomla-cms$ rm ./libraries/vendor/consolidation/robo/scenarios/symfony2/tests
/var/www/html/joomla-cms$ rm ./libraries/vendor/consolidation/robo/scenarios/symfony4/tests

The tests use Codeception Testing Framework, if you want to know more about the technology used for testing please check: Testing Joomla Extensions with Codeception.