CiviCRM Testing

Summary and expansion of the procedure outlined in the CiviCRM page ​Settings up your personal testing sandbox.

1. Create DB civicrm_tests_dev
2. Create the test user with SUPER privileges.
3. cd /path-to/civicrm
4. mysql -u user -p -hhostname civicrm_tests_dev < sql/civicrm.mysql
5. mysql -u user -p -hhostname civicrm_tests_dev < sql/civicrm_generated.mysql
6. In the file <path to civicrm>/tests/phpunit/CiviTest/civicrm.settings.local.php add the line define('CIVICRM_DSN', 'mysql://db_username:db_password@localhost/civicrm_tests_dev');