Argh!? BDD! ARGH!! Mocks?!

Table of Contents No. It's ArrBDD A simple BDD library for PHP 5 Argh!? But just how? YEah! Getting results

No. It's ArrBDD

A simple BDD library for PHP 5

Use array & closures. Make it simple.

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Argh!? But just how?

Arr! BDD? Specs?:

    /**
     * Simplest form. Check out the test examples for more
     */
    $specs["The 'Hello world' string"] = array(
        'subject' => function(){
            return 'Hello world';
        },
        "SHOULD be 11 characters long" => function($hello){
            return (strlen($hello)===11);
        },
        "AND start with 'Hello'" => function($hello){
            return (strpos($hello, 'Hello')===0);
        }
    );

Arr! Mock:

    // Follow this order method -> arguments -> returns
    $mydbMock->method('getHost')
             ->args('slaves')
             ->returns(array('192.168.1.2', '192.168.1.5'));

    // Method without arguments    
    $mydbMock->method('getHost')
             ->returns('127.0.0.1');

    // Mock static methods
    $mydbMock->staticMethod('getPath')
             ->returns('/var/db/');

YEah! Getting results

Run the test and get some JSON results: JSONView for Chrome JSONView for Firefox

Or use bArr - a sophisticated BDD result viewer tool.