WordPress Test Suite causes Fatal Error when used for Theme Testing

[michaeltaheri]

I have been playing with Theme Unit Testing using WP_UnitTestCase for some days, And I might have find an issue here: ​http://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/tests/phpunit/includes/

It seems a change in testcase.php (line 238) now causes a fatal error when you run phpunit Fatal error: __clone method called on non-object

I have tested this in different situations and systems all with same result, This even happen with WordPress default Theme.

I know that WP_UnitTestCase is not designed for Theme Testing but this can be resolved simply by using an is_object( $hook_object ) condition.

If anyone is wondering how Theme Testing works using WP_UnitTestCase ​here's a good start

[dd32]

@michaeltaheri Welcome to Trac :)

As a point of clarification - are you using the unit tests from there with WordPress 4.7/trunk or with 4.6.1?

If you're using 4.6.x you'll need to use the unit tests built with that version of WordPress - ​http://develop.svn.wordpress.org/branches/4.6/tests/phpunit/ - the unit tests in trunk are designed with changes in 4.7 in mind.

[michaeltaheri]

@dd32 Thanks, It seems that was the issue, I used the includes folder from version 4.6.1 (​http://develop.svn.wordpress.org/tags/4.6.1/tests/phpunit/includes/) and the error was gone.

I also tested the nightly build with nightly unit tests and it was working fine for Theme Testing as well.

It seems this bug report is invalid then :)

[dd32]

Thanks for the follow up @michaeltaheri! Glad to hear you got it working :)