[Simpletest-support] Beta4 released

[Marcus B. <ma...@la...>]

Hi.

SimpleTest1.0beta4 has been released.

This one was a real struggle as there was a lot of refactoring to get 
the web browser portion into one top level class. The feature set can be 
seen from the Sourceforge release notes, but the most significant 
changes are the error trapping now respects PHP ini file settings (and 
hopefully doesn't crash PHP5 boxes) and the web browser can be used 
independently.

As usual the documentation is a little behind. Having a separate web 
browser means that a UnitTestCase can be used when a WebTestCase is too 
course grained. For example...

class ConfirmingRandomPassword extends UnitTestCase {
     function ConfirmingRandomPassword() {
         $this->UnitTestCase();
     }
     function testAutoPasswordMatchesDatabaseEntry() {
         $browser = &new SimpleBrowser();
         $browser->get('http://portal.com/join.php');
         $browser->setField('name', 'Me');
         $browser->clickSubmit('Join');
         preg_match(
                 '/your password is (.*?)\s/',
                 $browser->getContent(),
                 $matches);
         $this->assertNotNull($matches[1]);

         $finder = &new LoginFinder();
         $login = &$finder->findByName('Me');
         $this->assertTrue($login);
         $this->assertIdentical($matches[1], $login->getPassword());
     }
}

Another possibility is when you want to test that multiple logins to a 
system are denied.

yours, Marcus
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