Getting Started

Installing Boomerang!

The first step is simply getting Boomerang! installed. You can find instructions for that here.

To verify your installation try running boomerang --version from the command line. If everything checks out you should get back along the lines of Boomerang! {version} by Jesse G. Donat.

Configure

Coming Soon!

Running Tests

The boomerang executable optionally takes a filename or directory as the final argument. When loading a directory it will recursively search for files matching the glob *Spec.php and load them as tests.

As an example, testing a simple API with the following structure

├── users.json
└── buildings.json

One could simply structure the API test folder

├── usersSpec.php
└── buildingsSpec.php

Test Structure

There are three steps to creating a test.

1. Creating and executing the API request.
2. Validating the response by creating one or more validators.
3. Register the validator with Boomerang!

Example

The following is a simple example that ensures a call returns the HTTP status code 200.

<?php

namespace Boomerang;

$req      = new HttpRequest('http://httpbin.org/get'); // Create the API Request
$response = $req->makeRequest();                   // Execute the request, return a Response object

$valid = new HttpResponseValidator($response); // Create a basic response validator.
$valid->expectStatus(200)                  // State a HTTP 200 status expectation
      ->expectHeaderContains('Content-Type', 'json'); // State a Content-Type expectation

Boomerang::addValidator($valid); // Register the validator with Boomerang to output the results