Drupal User Registry

A Codeception module for managing test users

Drupal User Registry is a Codeception module for managing test users on Drupal sites. It can be configured to automatically create users before and delete users after a suite run.

It also allows the use of the following statements in tests:

// Returns a DrupalTestUser object representing the test user available for
// this role.
$user = $I->getUserByRole($roleName);

// Returns a DrupalTestUser object representing the test user available for
// exactly these roles.
$user = $I->getUserByRole([$roleName1, $roleName2]);

// Returns a DrupalTestUser object representing the user, or false if no users
// were found. Note this will only return a user defined and managed by this
// module, it will not return information about arbitrary accounts on the site
// being tested.
$user = $I->getUser($userName);

// Returns an indexed array of configured roles, for example:
//   array(
//     0 => 'administrator',
//     1 => 'editor',
//     2 => ...
//   );
$roles = $I->getRoles();

// Returns a DrupalTestUser object representing the "root" user (account with
// uid 1), if credentials are configured:
$rootUser = $I->getRootUser();

// Also provided are a few utility methods that can be used in tests to
// store and retrieve a DrupalTestUser object representing the logged in user.
// Note these methods don't actually log a user in or out - that currently
// needs to be handled elsewhere.
$I->setLoggedInUser($I->getUserByRole('administrator'));
$I->getLoggedInUser();
$I->removeLoggedInUser();

All methods available to the Actor object $I are defined in this module's public API.

The DrupalTestUser class is a very minimal representation of a Drupal user account and can be used as part of a login procedure defined in, for example, a StepObject or PageObject.

This module currently uses Drush and Drush aliases to create, delete and add roles to user accounts. Note that the --delete-content option is used when deleting users, so any content created by that user account will also be removed.

Installation

This module is available on Packagist and can be installed with Composer:

{
    "require": {
        "codeception/codeception": "2.0.*",
        "ixis/codeception-module-drupal-user-registry": "~0.2.1"
    }
}

Drupal User Registry minimally requires Codeception 2.0 and PHP 5.4; note also that versions up to v0.2.2 are compatible with Codeception 2.0.* only.

Example suite configuration

class_name: AcceptanceTester
modules:
    enabled:
        - PhpBrowser
        - AcceptanceHelper
        - DrupalUserRegistry
    config:
        PhpBrowser:
            url: 'http://localhost/myapp/'
        DrupalUserRegistry:
            defaultPass: "foobar"
            users:
                administrator:
                    name: administrator
                    email: [email protected]
                    pass: "foo%^&&"
                    roles: [ administrator, editor ]
                    root: true
                editor:
                    name: editor
                    email: [email protected]
                    roles: [ editor, sub-editor ]
                "sub editor":
                    name: "sub editor"
                    email: "[email protected]"
                    roles: [ sub-editor ]
                authenticated:
                    name: authenticated
                    email: [email protected]
                    roles: [ "authenticated user" ]
            create: true                 # Whether to create all defined test users at the start of the suite.
            delete: true                 # Whether to delete all defined test users at the end of the suite.
            drush-alias: '@mysite.local' # The Drush alias to use when managing users via DrushTestUserManager.

Required and optional configuration

Configured values for users are required. drush-alias is only currently required as DrushTestUserManager is the only class available for managing (creating/deleting) users.

Other optional configuration includes:

• create and delete are assumed to be false if not set.
• defaultPass can be used to set a default test user password in case you don't want to add a password for each user. It can still be overridden on a per-user basis.
• The root key can be added for any user (but only one) to indicate it is the root user (uid 1). The user should already exist in the database and will not be created.

Troubleshooting

The module provides more verbose output when used with Codeception's --debug option. For example:

$ vendor/bin/codecept run --debug

[Drupal User Registry] Creating test users.
  Trying to create test user 'test.administrator' on '@mysite.local'.
  drush -y '@mysite.local' user-information 'test.administrator'
Creating test user 'test.administrator' on '@mysite.local'.
  drush -y '@mysite.local' user-create 'test.administrator' --mail='[email protected]' --password='test123!'
  drush -y '@mysite.local' user-add-role 'administrator' --name='test.administrator'
  Trying to create test user 'test.editor' on '@mysite.local'.
  drush -y '@mysite.local' user-information 'test.editor'
Creating test user 'test.editor' on '@mysite.local'.
  drush -y '@mysite.local' user-create 'test.editor' --mail='[email protected]' --password='test123!'
  drush -y '@mysite.local' user-add-role 'editor' --name='test.editor'
...
(Tests.)
...
  [Drupal User Registry] Deleting test users.
Deleting test user test.administrator on @mysite.local.
  drush -y '@mysite.local' user-cancel test.administrator --delete-content
Deleting test user test.editor on @mysite.local.
  drush -y '@mysite.local' user-cancel test.editor --delete-content
...

Testing

This module has some unit and functional tests using Codeception. Currently only the unit tests are run in Travis builds.

To run the unit tests:

$ vendor/bin/codecept run unit

The functional suite requires a Drupal 7 site set up with an open connection to the database as configured in functional.suite.yml - its best to edit the configuration for the local environment and run:

$ vendor/bin/codecept run functional --env=local

To run both suites:

$ vendor/bin/codecept run --env=local

Contribute

This module's code is managed with git-flow (AVH Edition). Releases are made on the master branch and should be tagged using semantic versioning and the format vx.y.z, e.g. v1.2.3

Pull requests should be made to the develop branch.

• Issue tracker: https://github.com/ixis/codeception-module-drupal-user-registry/issues
• Source code: https://github.com/ixis/codeception-module-drupal-user-registry

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Andy Rigby for the storage code and inspiration.

License

The project is licensed under The MIT License (MIT).