Adding profiling to your D7 simpletests
If your simpletest code is taking forever to load a page, for example with $this->drupalGet(…), you might want to add profiling to see what’s going on:
(1) Install Xdebug. For example, for Centos 6.x, you can run the following(*) with sudo:
# see https://gist.github.com/kramarama/9695033
yum -y install php-devel
yum -y install php-pear
yum -y install gcc gcc-c++ autoconf automake
cat /etc/php.ini|grep xdebug || (pecl install xdebug-2.2.7 && echo [xdebug] >> /etc/php.ini && echo 'zend_extension="/usr/lib64/php/modules/xdebug.so"' >> /etc/php.ini && echo 'xdebug.remote_enable = 1' && >> /etc/php.ini && echo 'xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger =1' >> /etc/php.ini)
apachectl restart
(2) download Webgrind to the root of your project
cd /path/to/drupal/root && git clone https://github.com/jokkedk/webgrind.git
(3) temporarily hack Drupal core by applying the following patch. This tells Simpletest to profile all calls to drupalGet() (if you want to profile only some calls to Drupal get, you could add some more code to target only certain pages, but I haven’t tried that).
--- a/modules/simpletest/drupal_web_test_case.php
+++ b/modules/simpletest/drupal_web_test_case.php
@@ -1936,6 +1936,10 @@ class DrupalWebTestCase extends DrupalTestCase {
* The retrieved HTML string, also available as $this->drupalGetContent()
*/
protected function drupalGet($path, array $options = array(), array $headers = array()) {
+ if (!isset($options['query'])) {
+ $options['query'] = array();
+ }
+ $options['query']['XDEBUG_PROFILE'] = 1;
$options['absolute'] = TRUE;
// We re-using a CURL connection here. If that connection still has certain
(4) Now run your tests as usual.
If you want an even faster testing cycle, consider using simpletest_turbo.