Iain Cambridge

Since Continuous Integration is awesome and I’m going be using Lithium a lot, it was clear I needed away to run my Lithium unit tests via Jenkins. Since I use Phing for builds on Jenkins and that Lithium uses it’s own testing framework there was only one solution. Build a phing task to run Lithium tests. So after a quick hacking session I completed a quick task that allows for the running of Lithium tests and fails the build if all of them don’t pass. You can find it on github at https://github.com/icambridge/phing_li3.

Install

To install is simple, just copy the directory into the directory you have your build file in.

Build File

The build file implementation is simple, you just defined a new task with taskdef, then you can just call the task, currently it only has two parameters both of which are required. 

li3Base : The location where you have the Lithium application.
tests : The namespace for the tests. It also allows for “all” to run all the tests that can be found.

Mock Request

Since the way Lithium finds the base path for the application we need to mock the Request and replace the _base() method. This will stop Lithium using the base location of Phing for the base location of the lithium app and prepending it to redirects.

Conclusion

Currently it’s a quick and rough way of running the tests, I don’t doubt as I need to do different things I’ll expand this task to allow me to achieve them. I’ll also improve the functionality of it as well.

You can download it at https://github.com/icambridge/phing_li3