Wrapper for cleaning up repetitious assertions in PHPunit / Symfony tests

assertionWrapper.phpunit.php

<?php

namespace Acme\YourCompanyBundle\Tests\Controller;

use Liip\FunctionalTestBundle\Test\WebTestCase;
use Doctrine\ORM\Tools\SchemaTool;


// Note: be sure to replace any instance of "Your"/"your" with the appropriate values.
class YourControllerTest extends WebTestCase
{
    private function validateRecord($entityName, $foreignKey, $validators){
      $nulls = $validators['null'];
      $equals = $validators['equals'];

      $record = $this->em->getRepository('YourCompanyBundle:'.$entityName)->findOneBy( array('your_foreign_key' => $foreignKey ) );

      foreach( $nulls as $nullKey ){
        $compareValue = call_user_func( array( $record, 'get'.ucfirst($nullKey) ) );
        $this->assertNull(
          $compareValue,
          "Failed asserting null for ".$nullKey
        );
      }

      foreach( $equals as $equalKey => $equalValue ){
        $compareValue = call_user_func( array( $record, 'get'.ucfirst($equalKey) ) );
        $this->assertEquals(
          $equalValue,
          $compareValue,
          "Failed asserting equality for ".$equalKey
        );
      }

    }
}

happyAssertions.phpunit.php

<?php

// instead of a bunch of...
$this->assertEquals(true, $myObject->getSomeName());
$this->assertEquals(true, $myObject->getOtherName());
$this->assertEquals(false, $myObject->getFinalName());

$this->assertNull($myObject->getOneName());
$this->assertNull($myObject->getTwoName());
$this->assertNull($myObject->getThreeName());

// you can just do this...
$this->validateRecord('YourEntityClassName', $myObject, array( 
  'null' => array(
    'oneName',
    'twoName',
    'threeName',
  ), 
  'equals' => array(
    'someName' => true,
    'otherName' => true,
    'finalName' => false,
  ) 
));