[Solar-talk] Solar Testing via external test library

[Travis Swicegood]

Antti Holvikari wrote:
> On 10/4/06, Rodrigo Moraes <rodrigo.moraes at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 10/4/06, Antti Holvikari wrote:
>>     
>>> I'm
>>> not an expert of this area but sometimes I wish I could test private
>>> methods, is that possible with SimpleTest?
>>>       
>> I've read somewhere this is possible with PhpUnit3.
>>     
>
> Yes, I guess reflection or runkit would enable this.
>   

You can do this in PHP5 via an adatper that overrides a class and passes 
everything through __call().  That said, if you need to test your 
private method, it's doing too much.  Actually, privates are a great 
idea for that very reason, you can't test them.  Now, if you have a 
private that relies on another object/function that is tested then 
that's another story. 

But this is a discussion for another mailing list :-)

-Travis