Matthew Turland’s Blog: Getting Started with Zend_Test

On his blog Matthew Turland is sharing his first time experience working with Zend_Test.

I worked on a project recently where we used Zend Framework. As part of that project, I was tasked with writing unit tests. So, I went to the “tests” directory generated for me by the zf CLI utility to get started. What I found there was three files. […] They were all completely empty, which didn’t really provide much in the way of guidance on how to get started. The Zend_Test documentation is good, but was a bit lacking in that area as well; it really only covers how Zend_Test extends the capabilities of PHPUnit.

Mathew walks you through entire process of preparing simple testing environment for Zend_Test, from explaining auto-generated “tests” folder content, through configuration and bootstrapping, to writing and running controller test, including database support and fixtures.