Sebastian Bergmann

When you are practicing Test-First Programming, PHPUnit can help you generate class skeletons from test case classes.

<?php
class BowlingGameTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    protected $game;
 
    protected function setUp()
    {
        $this->game = new BowlingGame;
    }
 
    protected function rollMany($n, $pins)
    {
        for ($i = 0; $i < $n; $i++) {
            $this->game->roll($pins);
        }
    }
 
    public function testScoreForGutterGameIs0()
    {
        $this->rollMany(20, 0);
        $this->assertEquals(0, $this->game->score());
    }
}
?>

Following the convention that the tests for a class BowlingGame (see below) are written in a class named BowlingGameTest (see above), the test case class' source is searched for variables that reference objects of the BowlingGame class and analyzing what methods are called on these objects.

<?php
/**
 * Generated by PHPUnit on 2008-03-10 at 17:18:33.
 */
class BowlingGame
{
    /**
     * @todo Implement roll().
     */
    public function roll()
    {
        // Remove the following line when you implement this method.
        throw new RuntimeException('Not yet implemented.');
    }
 
    /**
     * @todo Implement score().
     */
    public function score()
    {
        // Remove the following line when you implement this method.
        throw new RuntimeException('Not yet implemented.');
    }
}
?>

The code of the BowlingGame class (see above) has been generated from the code of the BowlingGameTest using phpunit --skeleton-class BowlingGameTest.

This is a new feature in PHPUnit 3.3.