concrete-php-assert

A concrete class that extends PHPUnit\Framework\Assert so that it can be instantiated as a class and used as an object.

See my User Story where I first used this package in a project.

Do you really need it?

I started this project to make typing assertion invocations easier. As I implemented my idea I started to doubt if the project was worthwhile. So, bear in mind. This project might be pointless and you might be better of not using it. Meanwhile, I had started so I had to finish it.

If you just want a short name for that class you could use the short version of the name.

See: Using namespaces: Aliasing/Importing

use PHPUnit\Framework\Assert;

Is the same as:

use PHPUnit\Framework\Assert as Assert;

So assertions could be invoked in just a few characters:

Assert::assertTrue($foo);

Install via Composer

You can add concrete-php-assert as a local, per-project, development-time dependency to your project using Composer:

$ composer require --dev arcus-software/concrete-php-assert

Using ConcreteAssert in your own project

See actual usages of this code within a Behat FeatureContext.php script.

See the FeatureContext class in this project at:

features/bootstrap/FeatureContext.php

Developing this project

Clone the repo

Clone this repository from its home on github.

Then, assuming that you have installed Composer, run:

$ composer update

We use Behat to test the basic behaviour of instantiating a concrete instance of PHPUnit\Framework\Assert. Run Behat tests from this project's root folder with the following command:

$ vendor/bin/behat