Problem setting sup fixtures for testing

I have a problem accessing fixtures in my app. I have a table called settings, and my tests directory is set up like this;




tests/

  fixtures/

    settings.php

  unit/

    SettingsTest.php


(other files and directories omitted for simplicity)



tests/fixtures/settings.php




return array(

	'theme'=>array(

		'name'=>'theme',

		'value'=>'default',

	),

	'remember_me_duration'=>array(

		'name'=>'remember_me_duration',

		'value'=>'2592000',

	),

	'mail_transport_type'=>array(

		'name'=>'mail_transport_type',

		'value'=>'smtp',

	),

);



tests/fixtures/SettingsTest.php




class SettingsTest extends CDbTestCase

{

	protected $object;

	

	public $fixtures = array(

		'settings'=>'settings'

	);

	

	protected function setUp()

	{

		$this->object = new Settings;

	}

	

	

	public function testFixtures()

	{

		$this->settings['theme']['value'];

	}

}



Please correct me if I am wrong but this is what I expect to happen when I run phpunit on SettingsTest.php…

The settings table in my database gets cleared and replaced with the default data as specified in my fixture file, then I expect the string ‘default’ to be outputed to the screen. Instead, phpunit throws the error




Unknown property 'settings' for class 'SettingsTest'


...framework/test/CDbTestCase.php:61



Where am I going wrong with this?

After a bit of tweaking the problem appears to be in the setUp method. Removing this removes any errors and I can then access my fixture which is probably due to me instantiating the Settings object.

perhapse you forgot to call parent::setUp(); inside your setUp() method?

else it sounds like a bug inside yii for me