[#6564] Revert doc removal in 2.8

components/phpunit_bridge.rst

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ The PHPUnit Bridge
 ==================
 
     The PHPUnit Bridge provides utilities to report legacy tests and usage of
-    deprecated code.
+    deprecated code and a helper for time-sensitive tests.
 
 It comes with the following features:
 
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ It comes with the following features:
 
 * Displays the stack trace of a deprecation on-demand;
 
+* Provides a ``ClockMock`` helper class for time-sensitive tests.
+
 .. versionadded:: 2.7
     The PHPUnit Bridge was introduced in Symfony 2.7. It is however possible to
     install the bridge in any Symfony application (even 2.3).
@@ -120,6 +122,120 @@ the value ``"weak"`` which will make the bridge ignore any deprecation notices.
 This is useful to projects that must use deprecated interfaces for backward
 compatibility reasons.
 
+Time-sensitive Tests
+---------------------
+
+Use Case
+~~~~~~~~
+
+If you have this kind of time-related tests::
+
+    use Symfony\Component\Stopwatch\Stopwatch;
+
+    class MyTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
+    {
+        public function testSomething()
+        {
+            $stopwatch = new Stopwatch();
+
+            $stopwatch->start();
+            sleep(10);
+            $duration = $stopwatch->stop();
+
+            $this->assertEquals(10, $duration);
+        }
+    }
+
+You used the :doc:`Symfony Stopwatch Component </components/stopwatch>` to
+calculate the duration time of your process, here 10 seconds. However, depending
+on the load of the server your the processes running on your local machine, the
+``$duration`` could for example be `10.000023s` instead of `10s`.
+
+This kind of tests are called transient tests: they are failing randomly
+depending on spurious and external circumstances. They are often cause trouble
+when using public continuous integration services like `Travis CI`_.
+
+Clock Mocking
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The :class:`Symfony\\Bridge\\PhpUnit\\ClockMock` class provided by this bridge
+allows you to mock the PHP's built-in time functions ``time()``,
+``microtime()``, ``sleep()`` and ``usleep()``.
+
+To use the ``ClockMock`` class in your test, you can:
+
+* (**Recommended**) Add the ``@group time-sensitive`` annotation to its class or
+  method;
+
+* Register it manually by calling ``ClockMock::register(__CLASS__)`` and
+  ``ClockMock::withClockMock(true)`` before the test and
+  ``ClockMock::withClockMock(false)`` after the test.
+
+As a result, the following is guarenteed to work and is no longer a transient
+test::
+
+    use Symfony\Component\Stopwatch\Stopwatch;
+
+    /**
+     * @group time-sensitive
+     */
+    class MyTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
+    {
+        public function testSomething()
+        {
+            $stopwatch = new Stopwatch();
+
+            $stopwatch->start();
+            sleep(10);
+            $duration = $stopwatch->stop();
+
+            $this->assertEquals(10, $duration);
+        }
+    }
+
+And that's all!
+
+.. tip::
+
+    An added bonus of using the ``ClockMock`` class is that time passes
+    instantly. Using PHP's ``sleep(10)`` will make your test wait for 10
+    actual seconds (more or less). In contrast, the ``ClockMock`` class
+    advances the internal clock the given number of seconds without actually
+    waiting that time, so your test will execute 10 seconds faster.
+
+Troubleshooting
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The ``@group time-sensitive`` works "by convention" and assumes that the
+namespace of the tested class can be obtained just by removing the ``\Tests\``
+part from the test namespace. I.e. that if the your test case fully-qualified
+class name (FQCN) is ``App\Tests\Watch\DummyWatchTest``, it assumes the tested
+class FQCN is ``App\Watch\DummyWatch``.
+
+If this convention doesn't work for your application, you can also configure
+the mocked namespaces in the ``phpunit.xml`` file, as done for example in the
+:doc:`HttpKernel Component </components/http_kernel/introduction>`:
+
+.. code-block:: xml
+
+    <!-- http://phpunit.de/manual/4.1/en/appendixes.configuration.html -->
+    <phpunit xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+             xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://schema.phpunit.de/4.1/phpunit.xsd"
+    >
+
+        <!-- ... -->
+
+        <listeners>
+            <listener class="Symfony\Bridge\PhpUnit\SymfonyTestsListener">
+                <arguments>
+                    <array>
+                        <element><string>Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation</string></element>
+                    </array>
+                </arguments>
+            </listener>
+        </listeners>
+    </phpunit>
+
 .. _PHPUnit: https://phpunit.de
 .. _`PHPUnit event listener`: https://phpunit.de/manual/current/en/extending-phpunit.html#extending-phpunit.PHPUnit_Framework_TestListener
 .. _`PHP error handler`: http://php.net/manual/en/book.errorfunc.php