[xdebug-general] Re: coverage not reported on code being executed

On 5 Sep 2007, at 01:07, Mark Slater wrote:

> Annoying problem: Our product is a web application. That means that
> some variables aren't filled in unless the code is in a web
> request. But when I try to have coverage reported over the whole
> product, it seems that XDebug tries to execute each line because it
> fails on things like:
>
> [PHP Error] Undefined index: SERVER_PORT [line # of /path/to/
> file.php]
>
> Is there anyway to get around that? Our unit tests are intended for
> offline execution, but if XDebug is going to insist that all lines
> be executable (even ones our tests won't actually touch) then it
> severely reduces our ability to use it outside a rather limited set
> of files.

I've run into something similar in normal execution because I have
code that is run through both the web server and CLI, so I just have
conditional code in those places and check that vars are defined
before I use them. The only workaround I can think of is to make an
artificial server environment for the script to run in. I know that
simpletest can do this but I don't know if xdebug can provide it too
(maybe define a bunch of environment vars in your test setup script).
Either that or run your tests via a server using something like
selenium.

Marcus

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