Testing with .phpt files

Tests are a great way to get your foot in the door of PHP internals. You don’t even need to know C in order to get started because all the tests are written in PHP.

In this chapter we’ll explore the test suite that covers the internal functionality of PHP. We’ll cover everything from running the test suite with PHP’s custom black-box testing tool called run-tests.php to creating new tests.

@TODO

The following sections still need to be written:

• Finding untested code (finding_untested_code)

• Environment variables (advanced/environment_variables)

• Redirect Tests (advanced/redirect_tests)

• Step debugging with GDB (advanced/step_debugging_with_gdb)