CakePHP Unit Testing Fixture Name Conventions Argh? - unit-testing

Question

I've been bashing my head against the wall trying to figure out why I can't get my fixture to load properly. When I attempt to run my test, my layout is rendered. If I comment out the fixture, the test runs properly. I've gone over this 100 times and I can't seem to see what's wrong.
Heres my Videosview.test.php
App::import('Model','Videosview');
class VideosviewTest extends Videosview {
var $name = 'Videosview';
//var $useDbConfig = 'test_suite';
}
class VideosviewTestCase extends CakeTestCase {
var $fixtures = array( 'app.videosview' );
function testIncrementTimer() {
$this->autoLayout = $this->autoRender = false;
$this->Videosview =& ClassRegistry::init('Videosview');
//$video_view = $this->find('first');
$result = $this->Videosview->increment_timer($video_view['Videosview']['video_id'],$video_view['Videosview']['user_id'],1);
$this->assertTrue(true);
}
}
This is my videosview_fixture.php
class VideosviewFixture extends CakeTestFixture {
var $name = 'Videosview';
var $import = array('model' => 'Videosview', 'records' => true);
}

Answer 1

Lot of strange code there, it looks like you don't understand how test are used. The problem doesn't come from your fixture import.
$this->assertTrue(true) will always return true. There is no need to declare VideosviewTest.
As I don't know what your increment_timer method is supposed to do I cannot write a test for it, but let's suppose it returns the value passed + 1:
function increment_timer($id = null){
return $id++;
}
Your test case should be
App::import('Model', 'Videosview');
class VideosviewTestCase extends CakeTestCase {
var $fixtures = array('app.videosview');
function startTest() {
$this->Videosview =& ClassRegistry::init('Videosview');
}
function endTest() {
unset($this->Videosview);
ClassRegistry::flush();
}
function testIncrementTimer() {
$input = 1;
// let's test increment_timer function by asserting true that return value is $input + 1, green bar
$this->assertTrue( $this->Videosview->increment_timer($input) == ($input+1), 'Should return 2' );
// let's test increment_timer function by asserting false that return value is $input + 2, green bar
$this->assertFalse( $this->Videosview->increment_timer($input) == ($input+2), 'Should not return 3' );
//the following returns an error as return value is not equal to $input + 2, Red bar
$this->assertTrue( $this->Videosview->increment_timer($input) == ($input+2), 'Should return 2' );
}
}
This is what you should get, and have expected