Wordpress/tests/phpunit
Boone Gorges 28fad09b61 More performance improvements to metadata lazyloading.
Comment and term meta lazyloading for `WP_Query` loops, introduced in 4.4,
depended on filter callback methods belonging to `WP_Query` objects. This meant
storing `WP_Query` objects in the `$wp_filter` global (via `add_filter()`),
requiring that PHP retain the objects in memory, even when the local variables
would typically be expunged during normal garbage collection. In cases where a
large number of `WP_Query` objects were instantiated on a single pageload,
and/or where the contents of the `WP_Query` objects were quite large, serious
performance issues could result.

We skirt this problem by moving metadata lazyloading out of `WP_Query`. The
new `WP_Metadata_Lazyloader` class acts as a lazyload queue. Query instances
register items whose metadata should be lazyloaded - such as post terms, or
comments - and a `WP_Metadata_Lazyloader` method will intercept comment and
term meta requests to perform the cache priming. Since `WP_Metadata_Lazyloader`
instances are far smaller than `WP_Query` (containing only object IDs), and
clean up after themselves far better than the previous `WP_Query` methods (bp
only running their callbacks a single time for a given set of queued objects),
the resource use is decreased dramatically.

See [36525] for an earlier step in this direction.

Props lpawlik, stevegrunwell, boonebgorges.
Fixes #35816.

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@36566 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
2016-02-17 22:57:33 +00:00
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data Tests: Add test for wp_get_installed_translations(). 2016-02-17 22:01:11 +00:00
includes Improve the performance of wp_upload_dir(): 2016-02-17 22:51:01 +00:00
tests More performance improvements to metadata lazyloading. 2016-02-17 22:57:33 +00:00
build.xml Move PHPUnit tests into a tests/phpunit directory. 2013-08-29 18:39:34 +00:00
multisite.xml Embeds: Add oEmbed provider support. 2015-10-07 10:35:18 +00:00
README.txt Update tests/README.txt to reflect the new tests directory structure. props jdgrimes. fixes #25133. 2013-08-31 13:42:56 +00:00
wp-mail-real-test.php Initialise $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] during the test bootstrap to avoid individual tests having to do it. 2015-10-21 23:51:45 +00:00

The short version:

1. Create a clean MySQL database and user.  DO NOT USE AN EXISTING DATABASE or you will lose data, guaranteed.

2. Copy wp-tests-config-sample.php to wp-tests-config.php, edit it and include your database name/user/password.

3. $ svn up

4. Run the tests from the "trunk" directory:
   To execute a particular test:
      $ phpunit tests/phpunit/tests/test_case.php
   To execute all tests:
      $ phpunit

Notes:

Test cases live in the 'tests' subdirectory.  All files in that directory will be included by default.  Extend the WP_UnitTestCase class to ensure your test is run.

phpunit will initialize and install a (more or less) complete running copy of WordPress each time it is run.  This makes it possible to run functional interface and module tests against a fully working database and codebase, as opposed to pure unit tests with mock objects and stubs.  Pure unit tests may be used also, of course.

Changes to the test database will be rolled back as tests are finished, to ensure a clean start next time the tests are run.

phpunit is intended to run at the command line, not via a web server.