chmeldax/phpmocks

Enhanced mocking of PHP classes for testing purposes

PhpMocks

Making mocking a pleasure!, _(*1)

Library to be used for testing classes., _(*2)

Features

• Stubbing and mocking of all public class methods
• Supports abstract classes and interfaces
• Mocking of static methods
• Different behaviors of the mock based on the method call parameters
• Strict mocking by default (calls to non-mocked method are disabled by default)
• Fluent intuitive interface

Requirements

• PHP 5.6+
• Composer
• allowed eval language construct

Installation

composer require chmeldax/phpmocks

Usage

Stubs

When you want to replace default behavior of the class, but you are not testing the method calls themselves, then use allowMethodCall()., _(*3)

$doubleBuilder = new \Chmeldax\PhpMocks\Double\Builder($className);
$doubleBuilder
    ->allowMethodCall('methodToBeStubbed')
    ->with(new Constraints\Anything, new Constraints\Anything, null) // Specify allowed parameters
    ->andReturn('return_value_1');
$double = $doubleBuilder->build(); // This is the stub

Specifying return values

$doubleBuilder
    ->allowMethodCall('methodToBeStubbed')
    ->with(new Constraints\Anything, new Constraints\Anything, null) // Specify allowed parameters
    ->andReturn('return_value_1', 'return_value_2'); // Returns different values on #1 and #2 call

$doubleBuilder
    ->allowMethodCall('methodToBeStubbed')
    ->with(new Constraints\Anything, new Constraints\Anything, null) // Specify allowed parameters
    ->andInvoke(function ($a, $b, $c) { // specify your own callback
        return 'return_value'
      });

$doubleBuilder = new \Chmeldax\PhpMocks\Double\Builder($instance);
$doubleBuilder
    ->allowMethodCall('methodToBeStubbed')
    ->with(new Constraints\Anything, new Constraints\Anything, null) // Specify allowed parameters
    ->andCallOriginal(); // Calls the original method from $instance

Multiple with blocks

$doubleBuilder
    ->allowMethodCall('methodToBeStubbed')
    ->with(new Constraints\Anything, new Constraints\Anything, 'first')
    ->andReturn('return_value_1'); // Returns different values on #1 and #2 call

$doubleBuilder
    ->allowMethodCall('methodToBeStubbed')
    ->with(new Constraints\Anything, new Constraints\Anything, 'second') // Different parameter value
    ->andReturn('return_value_2');

$double = $doubleBuilder->build();
$double->methodToBeStubbed(1, 2, 'first');  // returns 'return_value_1'
$double->methodToBeStubbed(1, 2, 'second'); // returns 'return_value_2'

See tests/DoubleTest.php for more examples., _(*4)

Mocks

When you are testing the interaction with class, use expectMethodCall. It will allow you to specify expected calls., _(*5)

$doubleBuilder
    ->expectMethodCall('methodToBeMocked')
    ->with(new Constraints\Anything, new Constraints\Anything, null)
    ->times(10) // Expectation
    ->andReturn('return_value_1');

$doubleBuilder
    ->expectMethodCall('methodToBeMocked')
    ->with(new Constraints\Anything, new Constraints\Anything, 'first')
    ->atCalls(1, 3) // Expectation for 1st and 3rd call (counted globally for all "with" blocks)
    ->andReturn('return_value_1');

$doubleBuilder
    ->expectMethodCall('methodToBeMocked')
    ->with(new Constraints\Anything, new Constraints\Anything, 'second')
    ->atCall(2) // Expectation for 2nd call (counted globally for all "with" blocks)
    ->andReturn('return_value_2');

Checking expectations

$doubleBuilder->checkExpectations() // Throws exception if any expectation is not met

It is advised to use tearDown() (or similar method) in your testing framework., _(*6)

See tests/ExpectedMethodTest.php for more examples., _(*7)

Things to implement

• Support for PHP 7 (mainly return values, scalar types)
• Implement better Constraints
• Clean the code
• Introduce true unit tests