Tests for Console Commands

Yii 2.0 Testing
1

Hi

I have no clue how to create a test for a console command in Yii2 neither unit test nor functional test. Can someone show me an example or a guide please ?

Update:

How can I run a command controller in test environment ?

Cheers

2

Check how its done in Yii core tests.

3

It does not look like Yii is using Codeception at all, which is a shame (considering that it is the de facto testing framework for the framework). :)

4

Yii is using it for testing app templates. For unit testing, indeed pure phpunit is used. There will be no difference if you’ll run these tests using Codeception though…

5

For anyone looking for the answer, you can test console applications by creating a test configuration in the same way you do for any other Yii2 application (see the advanced template for examples), then creating a test as follows:


class CronCest

{

    public function sendPromos(FunctionalTester $I)

    {

         Yii::$app->createControllerByID('cron')->run('send-promos');

    }

}

That’ll run the same thing as if it has been run from the console as


yii cron/send-promos
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