phpsymfonyinheritancefunctional-testingliipfunctionaltestbundle

Why this method get executed without being called?

According to this documentation, I can write a setUp() function in my test class, like:

use Doctrine\ORM\Tools\SchemaTool;
use Liip\FunctionalTestBundle\Test\WebTestCase;

class AccountControllerTest extends WebTestCase
{
    public function setUp()
    {
        $em = $this->getContainer()->get('doctrine')->getManager();
        if (!isset($metadatas)) {
            $metadatas = $em->getMetadataFactory()->getAllMetadata();
        }
        $schemaTool = new SchemaTool($em);
        $schemaTool->dropDatabase();
        if (!empty($metadatas)) {
            $schemaTool->createSchema($metadatas);
        }
        $this->postFixtureSetup();

        $fixtures = array(
            'Acme\MyBundle\DataFixtures\ORM\LoadUserData',
        );
        $this->loadFixtures($fixtures);
    }
//...
}

But when I look for the setUp() method in the extended WebTestCase class, I don't find it. My understanding is that I can redefine a method from parent class in the child class. Parent class is:

https://github.com/liip/LiipFunctionalTestBundle/blob/master/Test/WebTestCase.php

Please to explain to me why and when this method get executed? Thank you

Solution

  • setUp() is actually used by PHPUnit, which the Symfony testing framework extends.

    Take a look at the PHPUnit documentation for more info: https://phpunit.de/manual/current/en/fixtures.html

    Here's a link to the actual abstract class that Symfony is extending: https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/blob/master/src/Framework/TestCase.php#L2210