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About this guide

Read this guide if

  • you'd like to know how to run the testing suite used to test Matomo (formerly Piwik) core
  • you'd like to know how to add tests to your plugin so you can catch bugs before your users do

Guide assumptions

This guide assumes that you:

  • can code in PHP,
  • can use PHPUnit,
  • have a general understanding of extending Matomo (if not, read our Getting Started guide),
  • and understand how Matomo handles requests (if not, read our HTTP Request Handling guide).
  • have pulled Matomo's source code using git (an installation from an archive does not support running automated tests)

Piwik's test suite

Matomo Core contains a suite of tests used to make sure that Matomo works properly and that new commits do not introduce new bugs. These are the types of tests in this suite: unit tests, integration tests, system tests and ui tests.

  • Unit tests test individual classes isolated from the rest of the code to make sure they work correctly as a unit.

  • Integration tests test several parts working together, e.g. a test using a database.

  • System tests test Matomo's Reporting API and archiving logic by tracking visits and checking that the output of certain API queries matches the expected output.

  • UI tests test Matomo's twig templates, JavaScript and CSS by tracking visits, generating screenshots of URLs with phantomjs and comparing expected screenshots with generated ones.

What's next?

PHP Tests