I’m just diving into testing/test driven development in php, and am a bit confused about how to handle a very typical scenario in our legacy codebase. Our codebase does not have many classes, it’s very functional programming oriented.
In this example code, which is pseudocode, I want to write a test for getAndOrderUsersByAge(). As you can see it first gets all the users from our database (in a giant array lets say, because we don’t have objects/classes) then sorts them. This is of course a VERY common occurrence in our code, manipulating or analyzing data gotten from the database; not objects, but an array of database rows basically.
Note that I've added an error in the if statement to simulate an error I want my tests to catch.
//gets all users in our db into an array, then sorts them by age
function getAndOrderUsersByAge(){
//get all users from the db
$all_users = getAllUsers();
//sort
$all_users_sorted = sortUsers($all_users)
//notice I've made a mistake here on purpose, left the "d" off of "$all_users_sorted"
//so the function will always return false, a mistake...which I want tests to catch
if(!empty($all_users_sorte){
return $all_users_sorted;
}
else{
return false;
}
}
My questions are:
1.) Is testing the function getAndOrderUsersByAge() unit testing, integration testing, or …?
2.) In my (unit?) test(s) of getAndOrderUsersByAge(), I want to assume that getAllUsers (the function which gets things from the db) behaves correctly because I only want to test getAndOrderUsersByAge() right? I’m not really sure what “concept” this falls under when I’m reading the two books I have on testing. Is this where I would “mock”, e.g. create some fake data for getAllUsers() to return?
3.) What tests would you write for getAndOrderUsersByAge()? I think I would write one that ensures a non-empty array is returned when getAllUsers() returns a non-empty array, as this would catch the error I've created. I'm not sure what else though.
Any tips, recommended reading material, etc. is very welcomed.
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