Symfony2: Make test.client available in dev environment

Question

When using the test environment symfony2 creates a Symfony\\Bundle\\FrameworkBundle\\Client and registers it as test.client service but it is not registered in dev or prod envs. We're writing two kinds of tests: unit tests that use a predefined state of our database and fixtures in the test environment and functional tests that use the local productive database. When I want to use the Client to test a route's HTTP behaviour I can only do that in the test environment where I don't have access to the dev database.

How can we reuse the test.client "service" in our dev environment? BTW: It's working when we're copying the Symfony\\Bundle\\FrameworkBundle\\Resources\\test.xml file into our application and include it in the config_dev. Could we also include that file directly from the vendors directory?

Answer 1

You can add it it any environment as import,

eg

imports:
    - { resource: "@FrameworkBundle/Resources/config/test.xml" }

UPDATE: Changed it to the correct path.