Creating Our First Browser Test
Explore how to set up and run a browser test in PHP using PHPUnit and Panther. Understand making GET requests, inspecting page content, and writing assertions to verify your homepage displays correctly.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Adding a test for the homepage
In the first real test that we will now create, a GET request will be made to the homepage (/) and it will be verified if the server returns the right page. We need several things for that:
- The PHP web server should already be running before we run the test. This will be taken care of by Panther, which is a PHPUnit extension that starts the PHP web server for us before it runs the