wordpress-develop/tests/phpunit
Felix Arntz 8d8b843eaf Options, Meta APIs: Improve logic to avoid unnecessary database writes in update_option().
Prior to this change, a strict comparison between the old and new database value could lead to a false negative, since database values are generally stored as strings. For example, passing an integer to `update_option()` would almost always result in an update given any existing database value for that option would be that number cast to a string.

This changeset adjusts the logic to perform an intentional "loose-y" comparison by casting the values to strings. Extensive coverage previously added in [56648] provides additional confidence that this does not introduce any backward compatibility issues.

Props mukesh27, costdev, spacedmonkey, joemcgill, flixos90, nacin, atimmer, duck_, boonebgorges.
Fixes #22192.


git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@56681 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
2023-09-25 16:23:52 +00:00
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data Editor: Fix post editor layout when Post Content has no attributes. 2023-09-20 01:24:32 +00:00
includes Code Modernization: Use dirname() with the $levels parameter. 2023-09-11 04:51:09 +00:00
tests Options, Meta APIs: Improve logic to avoid unnecessary database writes in update_option(). 2023-09-25 16:23:52 +00:00
multisite.xml Build/Test Tools: Remove random_compat from PHPCS and PHPUnit configuration files. 2023-09-24 07:43:50 +00:00
README.txt Docs: Remove double spaces in tests/phpunit/README.txt. 2022-04-29 13:31:48 +00:00
wp-mail-real-test.php Coding Standards: Remove superfluous blank lines at the end of various files. 2023-09-07 14:57:30 +00:00

The short version:

1. Create a clean MySQL database and user. DO NOT USE AN EXISTING DATABASE or you will lose data, guaranteed.

2. Copy wp-tests-config-sample.php to wp-tests-config.php, edit it and include your database name/user/password.

3. $ svn up

4. Run the tests from the "trunk" directory:
   To execute a particular test:
      $ phpunit tests/phpunit/tests/test_case.php
   To execute all tests:
      $ phpunit

Notes:

Test cases live in the 'tests' subdirectory. All files in that directory will be included by default. Extend the WP_UnitTestCase class to ensure your test is run.

phpunit will initialize and install a (more or less) complete running copy of WordPress each time it is run. This makes it possible to run functional interface and module tests against a fully working database and codebase, as opposed to pure unit tests with mock objects and stubs. Pure unit tests may be used also, of course.

Changes to the test database will be rolled back as tests are finished, to ensure a clean start next time the tests are run.

phpunit is intended to run at the command line, not via a web server.