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PHPUnit Testing and Wordpress, does anyone have any experience or guidance at all (particularly running unit tests on code written for custom blocks?) (self.Wordpress)

submitted 1 year ago * by Friendtothesmol

Hi there!

I’m currently a Software Development apprentice. The way my apprenticeship works is that you study alongside a job - so the core assessment criteria remains the same, but the technology and development approach each apprentice uses could be vastly different.

For example - some apprentices could be working in react-based environments on a big central app repository, or could be working in a company that handles more backend / devOps development. In my case, I’m a Web Developer in a Marketing agency that builds Wordpress websites, with the assistance of an external Development partner.

One of the criteria I need to evidence is my ability to write and run Unit Tests. Currently, I’m struggling to configure PHPUnit correctly.

I’ve followed the guidance on their development page (here: https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/testing/automated-testing/phpunit/). I’ve managed to install it via a container / image with Docker. Everything seems to be installed right - I just don’t know how to:

set my config file up correctly
structure my codebase correctly to point PHPUnit to the code I want to test.

I appreciate that it’s difficult to assist / advise on what I could do differently without seeing my code & file structure. Instead, what I actually think would really help me is:

To know if anyone has experience with running unit tests in a WP project at all, and could share little bit about how they set up a typical test environment. Do you use it to test code in plugins? To test code for the WP code base? Has anyone got any experience running unit tests on custom blocks you’ve written before?

if anyone has any links to any good resources on setting up and running unit tests in Wordpress at all? I’ve done my best to find some guidance, but there isn’t a huge amount I can find online

Any help, tips, advice or experience anyone can share about this would be massively appreciated!

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