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POCan't Unit Test: $_SESSION empties before each test is ran
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    copied!<p>I can't unit test my code.</p> <p>$_SESSION clears every time the next test is run. When I run testStartProductSession() my object adds some data to the $_SESSION variable. But when I run the next test method ( testSessionIdIsKept() ) the $_SESSION is empty again.</p> <p>Looks like $_SESSION becomes local variable when unit testing.</p> <p>I don't know what else to do. Please check the output bellow:</p> <pre><code>// session_start() on bootrap.php; class MC_Session_ProductTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase { /** * @return MC_Session_Product */ public function getObject() { // make getInstance() return new instance instead of singleton instance MC_Session_Product::$isUnityTest = true; $object = MC_Session_Product::getInstance(); $object-&gt;getWsClient()-&gt;setServerListUrl(SERVER_LIST_URL); return $object; } /** * All tests pass * @depends testSetParam */ public function testStartProductSession() { $developerId = PARAM_DEVELOPER_ID; $productCode = PARAM_PRODUCT_CODE; $productVersion = PARAM_PRODUCT_VERSION; $platform = PARAM_PLATAFORM; $deviceType = PARAM_DEVICE_TYPE; $locale = PARAM_LOCALE; try { $object = $this-&gt;getObject(); $object-&gt;startSession($developerId, $productCode, $productVersion, $platform, $deviceType, $locale); $this-&gt;assertTrue($object-&gt;sessionStarted()); } catch (Exception $e) { $this-&gt;fail('Fail to start session: ' . $object-&gt;getLastUrl()); } echo "\$_SESSION in testStartProductSession(): ", print_r($_SESSION, 1); return $object; } /** * Test fails because $_SESSION is empty again * @depends testStartProductSession */ public function testSessionIdIsKept(MC_Session_Product $lastObject) { echo "\$_SESSION in testSessionIdIsKept(): ", print_r($_SESSION, 1); $object = $this-&gt;getObject(); // fails $this-&gt;assertTrue($lastObject-&gt;sessionStarted()); $this-&gt;assertTrue($object-&gt;sessionStarted()); $this-&gt;assertEquals($lastObject-&gt;getSessionId(), $object-&gt;getSessionId()); return $object; } } /* ###### Output $_SESSION in testStartProductSession(): Array ( [__MC] =&gt; Array ( [MC_Session_Product] =&gt; Array ( [keyOne] =&gt; 'valueOne' [sessionId] =&gt; 'someId' ) ) ) $_SESSION in testSessionIdIsKept(): Array ( ) */ </code></pre>
 

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