How to Use the Profiler in a Functional Test
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How to Use the Profiler in a Functional Test
It's highly recommended that a functional test only tests the Response. But if you write functional tests that monitor your production servers, you might want to write tests on the profiling data as it gives you a great way to check various things and enforce some metrics.
Enabling the Profiler in Tests
Collecting data with the Symfony Profiler can slow down your tests significantly. That's why Symfony disables it by default:
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# config/packages/test/web_profiler.yaml
# ...
framework:
profiler: { enabled: true, collect: false }Setting collect to true enables the profiler for all tests. However, if
you need the profiler just in a few tests, you can keep it disabled globally and
enable the profiler individually on each test by calling
$client->enableProfiler().
Testing the Profiler Information
The data collected by the Symfony Profiler can be used to check the number of
database calls, the time spent in the framework, etc. All this information is
provided by the collectors obtained through the $client->getProfile() call:
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class LuckyControllerTest extends WebTestCase
{
public function testRandomNumber()
{
$client = static::createClient();
// enable the profiler only for the next request (if you make
// new requests, you must call this method again)
// (it does nothing if the profiler is not available)
$client->enableProfiler();
$crawler = $client->request('GET', '/lucky/number');
// ... write some assertions about the Response
// check that the profiler is enabled
if ($profile = $client->getProfile()) {
// check the number of requests
$this->assertLessThan(
10,
$profile->getCollector('db')->getQueryCount()
);
// check the time spent in the framework
$this->assertLessThan(
500,
$profile->getCollector('time')->getDuration()
);
}
}
}If a test fails because of profiling data (too many DB queries for instance), you might want to use the Web Profiler to analyze the request after the tests finish. It's easy to achieve if you embed the token in the error message:
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$this->assertLessThan(
30,
$profile->getCollector('db')->getQueryCount(),
sprintf(
'Checks that query count is less than 30 (token %s)',
$profile->getToken()
)
);Note
The profiler information is available even if you insulate the client or if you use an HTTP layer for your tests.
Tip
Read the API for built-in data collectors to learn more about their interfaces.
