Symfony2 PHPUnit Bootstrap

phpunit_bootstrap.php

<?php

// include symfony2 bootstrap
include 'bootstrap.php.cache';

abstract class BaseTestCase extends \Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Test\WebTestCase
{
    protected $client;
    
    public function setUp()
    {
        $this->client = $this->getAuthenticatedClient('username', 'pass');
    }

    /**
     * Log in without running any tests. Provides an authenticated client for the rest of the tests
     * @param $username
     * @param $password
     * @return Client an authenticated client
     */
    private function getAuthenticatedClient($username, $password)
    {
        $client = $this->createClient();
        $crawler = $client->request('POST', 'login');
        $form = $crawler->selectButton('submit')->form();
        $client->submit($form, array(
            '_username' => $username,
            '_password' => $password
        ));

        return $client;
    }
}