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CakeWebTestCase is a direct extension of the SimpleTest WebTestCase, without any extra functionality. All the functionality found in the SimpleTest documentation for Web testing is also available here. This also means that no functionality other than that of SimpleTest is available. This means that you cannot use fixtures, and all web test cases involving updating/saving to the database will permanently change your database values. Test results are often based on what values the database holds, so making sure the database contains the values you expect is part of the testing procedure.

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In keeping with the other testing conventions, you should create your view tests in tests/cases/views. You can, of course, put those tests anywhere but following the conventions whenever possible is always a good idea. So let's create the file tests/cases/views/complete_web.test.php

First, when you want to write web tests, you must remember to extend CakeWebTestCase instead of CakeTestCase:

class CompleteWebTestCase extends CakeWebTestCase

1. class CompleteWebTestCase extends CakeWebTestCase

If you need to do some preparation before you start the test, create a constructor:

function CompleteWebTestCase(){
  //Do stuff here
}

1. function CompleteWebTestCase(){
2. //Do stuff here
3. }

When writing the actual test cases, the first thing you need to do is get some output to look at. This can be done by doing a get or post request, using get() or post() respectively. Both these methods take a full url as the first parameter. This can be dynamically fetched if we assume that the test script is located under http://your.domain/cake/folder/webroot/test.php by typing:

$this->baseurl = current(split("webroot", $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']));

1. $this->baseurl = current(split("webroot", $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']));

You can then do gets and posts using Cake urls, like this:

$this->get($this->baseurl."/products/index/");
$this->post($this->baseurl."/customers/login", $data);

1. $this->get($this->baseurl."/products/index/");
2. $this->post($this->baseurl."/customers/login", $data);

The second parameter to the post method, $data, is an associative array containing the post data in Cake format:

$data = array(
  "data[Customer][mail]" => "user@user.com",
  "data[Customer][password]" => "userpass");

1. $data = array(
2. "data[Customer][mail]" => "user@user.com",
3. "data[Customer][password]" => "userpass");

When you have requested the page you can do all sorts of asserts on it, using standard SimpleTest web test methods.

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CakeWebTest also gives you an option to navigate through your page by clicking links or images, filling forms and clicking buttons. Please refer to the SimpleTest documentation for more information on that.