Merge pull request #3586 from lonvia/reduce-lookup-calls

[nominatim.git] / docs / develop / Testing.md

diff --git a/docs/develop/Testing.md b/docs/develop/Testing.md
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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ the tests, see the [Development setup chapter](Development-Environment.md).
 
 There are two kind of tests in this test suite. There are functional tests
 which test the API interface using a BDD test framework and there are unit
-tests for specific PHP functions.
+tests for the Python code.
 
 This test directory is structured as follows:
 
@@ -20,28 +20,11 @@ This test directory is structured as follows:
   | +-  db         Tests for internal data processing on import and update
   | +-  api        Tests for API endpoints (search, reverse, etc.)
   |
-  +-   php         PHP unit tests
   +-   python      Python unit tests
   +-   testdb      Base data for generating API test database
   +-   testdata    Additional test data used by unit tests
 ```
 
-## PHP Unit Tests (`test/php`)
-
-Unit tests for PHP code can be found in the `php/` directory. They test selected
-PHP functions. Very low coverage.
-
-To execute the test suite run
-
-    cd test/php
-    UNIT_TEST_DSN='pgsql:dbname=nominatim_unit_tests' phpunit ../
-
-It will read phpunit.xml which points to the library, test path, bootstrap
-strip and sets other parameters.
-
-It will use (and destroy) a local database 'nominatim_unit_tests'. You can set
-a different connection string with e.g. UNIT_TEST_DSN='pgsql:dbname=foo_unit_tests'.
-
 ## Python Unit Tests (`test/python`)
 
 Unit tests for Python code can be found in the `python/` directory. The goal is
@@ -78,7 +61,6 @@ To run the functional tests, do
 
 The tests can be configured with a set of environment variables (`behave -D key=val`):
 
- * `BUILDDIR` - build directory of Nominatim installation to test
  * `TEMPLATE_DB` - name of template database used as a skeleton for
                    the test databases (db tests)
  * `TEST_DB` - name of test database (db tests)
@@ -90,8 +72,6 @@ The tests can be configured with a set of environment variables (`behave -D key=
  * `DB_PORT` - (optional) port of database on 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
  * `REMOVE_TEMPLATE` - if true, the template and API database will not be reused
                        during the next run. Reusing the base templates speeds
                        up tests considerably but might lead to outdated errors
@@ -119,26 +99,9 @@ and compromises the following data:
  * extract of Autauga country, Alabama, US (for tests against Tiger data)
  * additional data from `test/testdb/additional_api_test.data.osm`
 
-API tests should only be testing the functionality of the website PHP code.
+API tests should only be testing the functionality of the website frontend code.
 Most tests should be formulated as BDD DB creation tests (see below) instead.
 
-#### Code Coverage (PHP engine only)
-
-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
-
-Then 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>
-
 ### DB Creation Tests (`test/bdd/db`)
 
 These tests check the import and update of the Nominatim database. They do not