Update: Drupal 8 now uses PHPUnit for its unit tests. It still uses simpletest for its system tests. Upal's purpose as a showcase and proof of concept has been fulfilled and no further work is expected.

Drupal's test suite based on PHPUnit (http://www.phpunit.de/).

Usage

• Install PHPUnit (see below) and Drush (http://drupal.org/project/drush).
• Checkout or download a core Drupal that is to be tested (only tested with 8.x). -- Map http://upal to this Drupal in your web server config. If not possible, configure UPAL_WEB_URL in phpunit.xml (see Notes). -- Create an 'upal' database on your database server. -- If your db_url is not mysql://root:@127.0.0.1/upal, configure UPAL_DB_URL in phpunit.xml (see Notes).
• From the drupal root directory that is to be tested, run lines like: phpunit --configuration /path/to/upal/phpunit.xml FilterUnitTestCase core/modules/filter/filter.test phpunit --debug --configuration /path/to/upal/phpunit.xml core/modules/book/book.test

Notes

• If customization is needed as per above, Copy phpunit.xml.dist to phpunit.xml and edit.

Install PHPUnit

Upal requires PHPUnit 3.5 or later; installing with PEAR is easiest.

• On Linux/OSX: sudo apt-get install php5-curl php-pear sudo pear upgrade --force PEAR sudo pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de sudo pear channel-discover components.ez.no sudo pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com sudo pear install --alldeps phpunit/PHPUnit

• On Windows: Download and save from go-pear.phar http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar

  php -q go-pear.phar pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de pear channel-discover components.ez.no pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com pear install --alldeps phpunit/PHPUnit