Lime (test framework)

lime is a unit testing and functional testing framework built specifically for the Symfony web application framework based on the Test::More Perl library. The framework is designed to have readable output from tests, including color formatting, by following the Test Anything Protocol which also allows for easy integration with other tools. lime tests are run in a sandbox environment to minimize test executions from influencing each other. Though the lime testing framework is built for testing within Symfony, lime is contained within a single PHP file and has no dependency on Symfony or any other library.

The alpha version of lime 2.0 was announced on November 10, 2009 and is compatible with Symfony 1.2 and lower. Symfony 2.0 uses PHPUnit for testing instead of lime.

Example
lime unit tests use the  object to make assertions. The following is a basic example lime unit test to test PHP's built-in  function.

Version 2.0
The alpha version of lime 2.0 was announced on the Symfony blog on November 10, 2009. The second version of lime was built to be as backward compatible with the first version as was possible - the two parts of lime 2.0 that are not compatible with lime 1.0 are the configuration of the test harness and the  class. lime 2.0 includes support for xUnit output, source code annotations, parallel execution of tests, automatic generation of mock and stub objects, and operator overloading for data within tests. Unlike the first version of lime, lime 2.0 does have some dependencies on Symfony.