drupal/core/tests

Running tests

Functional tests

• Run the functional tests:

  export SIMPLETEST_DB='mysql://root@localhost/dev_d8'
  export SIMPLETEST_BASE_URL='http://d8.dev'
  ./vendor/bin/phpunit -c core --testsuite functional
  

Note: functional tests have to be invoked with a user in the same group as the web server user. You can either configure Apache (or nginx) to run as your own system user or run tests as a privileged user instead.

To develop locally, a straightforward - but also less secure - approach is to run tests as your own system user. To achieve that, change the default Apache user to run as your system user. Typically, you'd need to modify /etc/apache2/envvars on Linux or /etc/apache2/httpd.conf on Mac.

Example for Linux:

export APACHE_RUN_USER=<your-user>
export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=<your-group>

Example for Mac:

User <your-user>
Group <your-group>

Functional javascript tests

Javascript tests use the Selenium2Driver which allows you to control a big range of browsers. By default Drupal uses chromedriver to run tests. For help installing and starting selenium, see http://mink.behat.org/en/latest/drivers/selenium2.html

• Make sure you have a recent version of chrome installed

• Install selenium-server-standalone and chromedriver

Example for Mac:

brew install selenium-server-standalone
brew install chromedriver

• Before running tests make sure that selenium-server is running

selenium-server -port 4444

• Set the correct driver args and run the tests:

export MINK_DRIVER_ARGS_WEBDRIVER='["chrome", null, "http://localhost:4444/wd/hub"]'
./vendor/bin/phpunit -c core --testsuite functional-javascript

• It is possible to use alternate browsers if the required dependencies are installed. For example to use Firefox:

export MINK_DRIVER_ARGS_WEBDRIVER='["firefox", null, "http://localhost:4444/wd/hub"]'
./vendor/bin/phpunit -c core --testsuite functional-javascript

• To force all BrowserTestBase (including legacy JavascriptTestBase) tests to use webdriver:

export MINK_DRIVER_CLASS='Drupal\FunctionalJavascriptTests\DrupalSelenium2Driver'
./vendor/bin/phpunit -c core --testsuite functional-javascript

Running legacy javascript tests

Older javascript test may use the PhantomJSDriver. To run these tests you will have to install and start PhantomJS.

• Start PhantomJS:

  phantomjs --ssl-protocol=any --ignore-ssl-errors=true ./vendor/jcalderonzumba/gastonjs/src/Client/main.js 8510 1024 768 2>&1 >> /dev/null &
  

• Then you can run the test:

./vendor/bin/phpunit -c core --testsuite functional-javascript

Running tests with a different user

If the default user is e.g. www-data, the above functional tests will have to be invoked with sudo instead:

export SIMPLETEST_DB='mysql://root@localhost/dev_d8'
export SIMPLETEST_BASE_URL='http://d8.dev'
sudo -u www-data -E ./vendor/bin/phpunit -c core --testsuite functional
sudo -u www-data -E ./vendor/bin/phpunit -c core --testsuite functional-javascript