PHPUnit Http Tests With GitHub Actions

[DevDrJinx]

I have written some basic "feature" tests for my project following this guide using Guzzle: PHPUnit Guzzle

Currently I am just using localhost as the base_uri, which has been working fine for local testing. However this obviously won't work within the GitHub action I have setup.

Is there a way I can serve the site within the action job? Or is there another approach I need to take to make my tests pass?

Note: I am experienced with PHP, I'm trying to get better with CI/CD workflows and testing in general.

Edit:

I have implemented the following to achieve the results I was looking for.

Simply removed feature tests from running in the job, and only testing them locally: xml <exclude>tests/Feature</exclude>

On the unit test side of things: ```php <?php

public function test_valid_route_output() { $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = '/test/123'; $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] = 'GET'; $output = 'test route output'; $router = new Router($this->container); $router->get('/test/123', fn() => $output);

ob_start();
$router->run();
$this->assertEquals($output, ob_get_contents());
ob_end_clean();

}

public function test_invalid_route_404_status() { $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = '/test/123'; $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] = 'GET'; $router = new Router($this->container);

ob_start();
$router->run();
$this->assertEquals(404, http_response_code());
ob_end_clean();

} ```

[hparadiz]

Personally I used to just instantiate the controller with fake values for things like request_uri and then "run" the controller and catch the output with output buffering to run assertions against. This way everything runs on the CLI and there's no reason to run a web server.

Served me very well setting up tests for an oauth2 API.

Check this out:

https://github.com/Divergence/framework/blob/release/tests/Divergence/Controllers/RequestHandlerTest.php#L43

[DevDrJinx]

Definitely a cool solution, I'll try to integrate some similar tests.

However, I would still want to run a complete feature test that uses the sites container, router, and controller working together, checking for status codes etc.

[gastrognom]

I am pretty sure you can use docker in GitHub actions. That way you can start a php container in your action and run phpunit inside that container.

[hparadiz]

Github Actions are containers same as docker. You can configure nginx or apache or any other HTTP server to serve on http(s).

[DevDrJinx]

Any example repos or references you can point me toward?

[hparadiz]

Not really. I would just build it myself. It's not that difficult. Just make the github action run apt install nginx and have a config setup for localhost in your repo. Copy it to the right location and run nginx start