[support] Simpletest Conundrum

[Lucas Hedding]

If its just functional testing without any UI, why not just use phpunit
directly?


Lucas
MTech, LLC <http://www.mtech-llc.com>

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Jeff Greenberg <
listmail.ayendesigns at gmail.com> wrote:

> Argh. Been so long that I sent this to the dev list by mistake...
>
> In Drupal 7, I have a requirement to simpletest a functional group of
> methods... one test comprised of about 1800 subtest permutations.
>
> The issue I have is that these are back-end functions with no UI
> interaction, yet simpletest unit test, from what I read, does not provide
> the functionality for accessing the db, creating test tables and data, etc.
>
> Do I fudge it by having a menu callback, or by having an admin page with a
> button if necessary, so that I can webtest, or do I manually include
> db.inc, etc. so that I can access the db, (though I think it would need to
> be much dirtier than that)?
>
> Jeff
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