[TYPO3-dev] OT (somewhat): unit testing with typo3 4.x

[Christoph Koehler]

Hello all,

We would like to start unit testing our extensions. One big requirement is  
the use of the command line to implement post commit hooks etc, so  
Robert's extension t3unit is unfortunately not an option.
Now, I needed to include the typo3 environment in all my tests and ended  
up just copying most of index.php and index_ts.php into the test. However,  
I ran into some problems and already talked to the author about it [1],  
but no luck; so in case I am missing something, I am presenting it here to  
make sure I am doing things correctly.
First, you can download all the files from my site [2].
Second, remove the .txt and put the files into your typo3 root.
Third, run the test via 'phpunit exampleTest'. It should tell you that the  
extension cms isn't loaded.
Fourth, add a debug call in the TYPO3 source in file  
class.t3lib_extmgm.php, around line 922, to display the contents of  
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS, right after the statement 'global $TYPO3_CONF_VARS; it  
will show up empty.

To make it simpler, I made a test case. That's the bugtest file. Run it  
 from the command line via 'php bugtest.php' and 'phpunit bugtest' and you  
should see that global variable is handled differently when called from an  
outside class 'tester'; correctly in php, incorrectly in phpunit.
Obviously this makes unit testing from without the TYPO3 environment  
impossible.

Am I missing something here? Is there a way around this?

Thanks!

Christoph

[1] http://phpunit.de/ticket/99
[2] http://www.zerodeviation.net/unittest/