Easy PHP question!

[Lt. Manlove]

Can't figure this out so early in the morning

I've started learning PHPUnit. Each function creates a new object called joe. But following DRY principles, I only want to create the single object - not sure where to instantiate the class?

<?php

require_once('CustomerController.php');

class CustomerTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {

	public function testGetFirstName()
	{
		$joe = new Customer('Joe', 'Smith');
		$this->assertEquals('Joe', $joe->getFirstName());
	}
	
	public function testGetLastName()
	{
		$joe = new Customer('Joe', 'Smith');
		$this->assertEquals('Smith', $joe->getLastName());
	}
}
?>

 

[Pulseammo]

If the object Customer "Joe Smith" is going to be used across a number of tests you can use the methods setUp and tearDown to set an instance variable (private $customer on the class CustomerTest).

setUp and tearDown are called before and after each testWhatever method.

Read about it here:

http://www.phpunit.de/manual/3.5/en/fixtures.html