Common unit test problems

Unit tests are taking more than 5 mins to run

This problem is under investigation. We are hoping to find the soluton. On a typical system all tests complete in under 3 mins.--Dan Poltawski 12:43, 15 May 2012 (WST)

You maybe find much better performance on psql as a workaround for now if not doing DB dependent tests.

dml_testcase::test_unique_index_collation_trouble

"Unique index is accent insensitive, this may cause problems for non-ascii languages. This is usually caused by accent insensitive default collation."

Solution

Your Database is incorrectly configured. You probably are running MySQL and need to switch to utf8_bin collation.

dml_testcase::test_sql_binary_equal

"SQL operator "=" is expected to be case sensitive Failed asserting that 1 matches expected 2."

Solution

Your Database is incorrectly configured. You probably are running MySQL and need to switch to utf8_bin collation.

moodlesimplepie_testcase::test_getfeed

"Failed to load the sample RSS file. Please check your proxy settings in Moodle. %s"

Solution

Your moodle needs network connectivity, please check proxy settings.

moodlesimplepie_testcase::test_redirect

Failed asserting that 'cURL Error: Operation timed out after 2000 milliseconds with 0 bytes received' is null.

Solution

Your moodle needs network connectivity, please check proxy settings

collatorlib_testcase::test_asort_objects_by_method

Collation aware sorting not supported, PHP extension "intl" is not available.

Solution

Install php intl extension.

Note that, on Windows, this extension does not seem to be included in the installer, but you can get it by downloading the zip, and copying the right DLLs across. If you Google, there are more detailed instructions on Stack Exchange.

grading_manager_testcase::test_tokenize

A test using UTF-8 characters has failed. Consider updating PHP and PHP's PCRE or INTL extensions (MDL-30494) Failed asserting that false is true.

Solution

Your Database is incorrectly configured. You probably are running MySQL and need to switch to utf8_bin collation.