Unit Testing a Symfony Service

In this video we look at how we can use Codeception's Unit test suite functionality to do TDD against a Symfony 2 service.

We'll start off by generating ourselves a new Codeception Unit test which we can then use as the basis for actually writing our tests.

Whilst this is a gentle introduction to unit testing, it does cover something that you will quickly encounter in the real world - repeating tests that change only the data, not the test. There's a very elegant solution to this - using PHPUnit's @dataProvider syntax - so even if you're quite comfortable with unit testing, please do check out the video from around the 08:30 mark, where we begin looking at the data provider, and how it can streamline your test suite nicely.