small typos and wording in the API docs

[nominatim.git] / test / README.md

diff --git a/test/README.md b/test/README.md
index 49fb101dd4ef4b43c3b9dafea7f3035d973d0299..0487fd404da664e8f3a5891f36306c509cc7ac40 100644 (file)
--- a/test/README.md
+++ b/test/README.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Prerequisites
 
 To get the prerequisites on a a fresh Ubuntu LTS 16.04 run:
 
-     [sudo] apt-get install python3-dev python3-pip python3-psycopg2 python3-tidylib phpunit
+     [sudo] apt-get install python3-dev python3-pip python3-psycopg2 python3-tidylib phpunit php-cgi
      pip3 install --user behave nose
 
 
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ tests for specific PHP functions.
 
 This test directory is sturctured as follows:
 
+```
  -+-   bdd         Functional API tests
   | \
   | +-  steps      Step implementations for test descriptions
@@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ This test directory is sturctured as follows:
   +-   php         PHP unit tests
   +-   scenes      Geometry test data
   +-   testdb      Base data for generating API test database
-
+```
 
 PHP Unit Tests
 ==============
@@ -44,8 +45,8 @@ Very low coverage.
 
 To execute the test suite run
 
-   cd test/php
-   phpunit ../
+    cd test/php
+    phpunit ../
 
 It will read phpunit.xml which points to the library, test path, bootstrap
 strip and set other parameters.
@@ -72,6 +73,11 @@ The tests can be configured with a set of environment variables:
                    the test databases (db tests)
  * `TEST_DB` - name of test database (db tests)
  * `ABI_TEST_DB` - name of the database containing the API test data (api tests)
+ * `DB_HOST` - (optional) hostname of database host
+ * `DB_USER` - (optional) username of database login
+ * `DB_PASS` - (optional) password for database login
+ * `SERVER_MODULE_PATH` - (optional) path on the Postgres server to Nominatim
+ *                        module shared library file
  * `TEST_SETTINGS_TEMPLATE` - file to write temporary Nominatim settings to
  * `REMOVE_TEMPLATE` - if true, the template database will not be reused during
                        the next run. Reusing the base templates speeds up tests
@@ -98,16 +104,20 @@ be documented.
 
 These tests are meant to test the different API endpoints and their parameters.
 They require a preimported test database, which consists of the import of a
-planet extract. The polygons defining the extract can be found in the test/testdb
+planet extract. A precompiled PBF with the necessary data can be downloaded from
+https://www.nominatim.org/data/test/nominatim-api-testdata.pbf
+
+The polygons defining the extract can be found in the test/testdb
 directory. There is also a reduced set of wikipedia data for this extract,
-which you need to import as well.
+which you need to import as well. For Tiger tests the data of South Dakota
+is required. Get the Tiger files `46*`.
 
 The official test dataset is derived from the 160725 planet. Newer
 planets are likely to work as well but you may see isolated test
 failures where the data has changed. To recreate the input data
 for the test database run:
 
-    wget http://free.nchc.org.tw/osm.planet/pbf/planet-160725.osm.pbf
+    wget https://free.nchc.org.tw/osm.planet/pbf/planet-160725.osm.pbf
     osmconvert planet-160725.osm.pbf -B=test/testdb/testdb.polys -o=testdb.pbf
 
 Before importing make sure to add the following to your local settings:
@@ -115,6 +125,23 @@ Before importing make sure to add the following to your local settings:
     @define('CONST_Database_DSN', 'pgsql://@/test_api_nominatim');
     @define('CONST_Wikipedia_Data_Path', CONST_BasePath.'/test/testdb');
 
+#### Code Coverage
+
+The API tests also support code coverage tests. You need to install
+[PHP_CodeCoverage](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/php-code-coverage).
+On Debian/Ubuntu run:
+
+    apt-get install php-codecoverage php-xdebug
+
+The run the API tests as follows:
+
+    behave api -DPHPCOV=<coverage output dir>
+
+The output directory must be an absolute path. To generate reports, you can use
+the [phpcov](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpcov) tool:
+
+    phpcov merge --html=<report output dir> <coverage output dir>
+
 ### Indexing Tests (`test/bdd/db`)
 
 These tests check the import and update of the Nominatim database. They do not