TutsPlus.com has continued their series looking at programming with the Yii2 framework with this new article covering testing the application with Codeception.

In this Programming With Yii2 series, I'm guiding readers in use of the Yii2 Framework for PHP. In this tutorial, I'll explore automated testing using Codeception, which is integrated with` the Yii2 development framework.

Admittedly, my experience writing tests with my code is scarce. I've often been part of solo or small projects with limited resources. During my time at Microsoft, we had distinct test teams that did this. But frankly, this is likely typical of you too, right? Programmers like to code, they don't write tests—at least old school programmers didn't.

He briefly talks about some of his own experiences with Codeception and how it "makes writing tests fun and easy". The tutorial then moves over to the technical side, showing how to install the Codeception tool and set up the Yii2 application to integrate with its testing functionality. The remainder of the tutorial is split up into the different kinds of testing (unit, functional and acceptance) and some code examples of each.