Fatal error: Class 'PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase' not found in dbunit\PHPUnit\Extensions\Database\TestCase.php on line 24

Question

I want to write tests for MySQL Database. When I try to extend the database extension, it gives me the above error in title:

class FixtureTestCase extends PHPUnit_Extensions_Database_TestCase 

Note: I have installed PHPUnit globally and I can access it through phpunit in cmd. I have latest PHPUnit 4.5.1.

I also installed Dbunit globally through composer :

composer global require phpunit/dbunit

Any help will be much appreciated. I've used PHP 5.4.

Answer 1

For referring to classes that are located within the global namespace, you can simply prefix them with a backward ( \\ ) slash. Try with this:

class FixtureTestCase extends \PHPUnit_Extensions_Database_TestCase 

With the leading backward ( \\ ) slash, PHP knows that we are referring to the PHPUnit_Extensions_Database_TestCase class in the global namespace, and located that one.

More info here

Hope this help.

Answer 2

It just might be the version of DBUnit. For example I'm using PHPUnit 4.8 and it works with DBUnit 1.4 .

I had the above error when I was using composer with "phpunit/dbunit": ">=1.2" and I ended up with DBUnit 2.0.

Answer 3

Test your DB how? Through an API you created or direct accesses to DB? i would recommend you to write an API to access your DB and then write the tests to the API. for exemple if you want to insert a user you call your web-server address (localhost:3000) or something you have and then call /users through POST to insert and make the routes to that. I would suggest using LARAVEL for that.