Wordpress acceptance test always redirect to install.php about wp-browser HOT 3 CLOSED

Hi, this is the right place to ask the question.

What I think is happening: you are telling the WPDb module it should populate the database before each test and the module is doing exactly that but using an empty SQL dump file.

The WPDb module will reset the database to a pristine state before each test; this is to avoid tests from influencing each other and create false positives or false negatives.
Think of a first test method creating a post and of a second method creating a post; if the second method tried to assert the database should contain 1 post it would fail as the database actually contains the post created from the first test method too.
The 3 parameters you have to look at here in WPDb configuration are:

• dump - this tells the WPDb module that, when asked to repopulate the database, it should use this SQL dump file
• populate - this tells the module that it should populate the database using the dump file before running each test case (the class)
• cleanup - this tells the module that is should populate the database using the dump file before each test method

The WPDb module is an extension of Codeception Db module so the same documentation applies.

What I usually do when setting up my tests is go through the installation manually, activate the theme/plugins I need and then run some wp-cli scripts:

wp site empty --yes
wp theme activate my-theme
wp plugin activate one two three my-plugin
wp db export wp-content/plugins/my-plugin/tests/_data/dump.sql

where the commands should point/specify themes/plugins you need and the real location of that tests/_data/dump.sql file.

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Obviously I missed all the dump.sql part... Now it works perfectly!
Many thanks for all the tips, that's really appreciated :)

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You are welcome, closing as solved.

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