原文链接http://drupal.org/node/645286。
命令行执行测试--linux平台
本章节供那些希望或者需要命令行来运行测试套件者阅读。这方法会经常用到在，比如当想整合第三方系列工具，的时候。当你只希望做小规模的，测试一个或几个模块式式，我希望本页面能收集测试方面的信息和技巧。
对于想通过GUI来运行SImpletest的开发者，请阅读Simpletest指南 ; 深入阅读指南，你会发现通过Durpal用户界面来运行测试的一些信息。通过drupal界面以命令行访问Simpletest的两个重要链路是admin/config/development/testing/ and admin/config/development/testing/results。
位于/scripts下有个run-tests.sh的帮助文件，它使在Drupal中，通过命令行执行测试变得非常容易。你可以作为web服务器端用户，去站点的根目录下，执行php scripts/run-tests.sh，就可以很容易地执行测试套件。
如果你不喜欢每次都输入/scripts/run-test.sh，在你的路径下如果存在bin目录，则可以在~/bin目录下建一个symlink符号连接，如下显示:
ln -s scripts/run-tests.sh ~/bin
运行不带参数的脚本可以弹出帮助页面，并给出option列表。
下面我们来全面地展开run-scripts.sh:
www-data@dev:/var/www-drupal-7-head$ php scripts/run-tests.sh
Run Drupal tests from the shell.
Usage: run-tests.sh [OPTIONS]
Example: run-tests.sh Profile
All arguments are long options.
--help Print this page.
--list Display all available test groups.
--clean Cleans up database tables or directories from previous, failed,
tests and then exits (no tests are run).
--url Immediately preceeds a URL to set the host and path. You will
need this parameter if Drupal is in a subdirectory on your
localhost and you have not set $base_url in settings.php.
--php The absolute path to the PHP executable. Usually not needed.
--concurrency [num]
Run tests in parallel, up to [num] tests at a time. This requires
the Process Control Extension (PCNTL) to be compiled in PHP, not
supported under Windows.
--all Run all available tests.
--class Run tests identified by specific class names, instead of group names.
--file Run tests identified by specific file names, instead of group names.
Specify the path and the extension (i.e. 'modules/user/user.test').
--xml
If provided, test results will be written as xml files to this path
--color Output the results with color highlighting.
--verbose Output detailed assertion messages in addition to summary.
[,[, ...]]
One or more tests to be run. By default, these are interpreted
as the names of test groups as shown at
?q=admin/config/development/testing.
These group names typically correspond to module names like "User"
or "Profile" or "System", but there is also a group "XML-RPC".
If --class is specified then these are interpreted as the names of
specific test classes whose test methods will be run. Tests must
be separated by commas. Ignored if --all is specified.
To run this script you will normally invoke it from the root directory of your
Drupal installation as the webserver user (differs per configuration), or root:
sudo -u [wwwrun|www-data|etc] php ./scripts/run-tests.sh --url http://example.com/ --all
sudo -u [wwwrun|www-data|etc] php ./scripts/run-tests.sh --url http://example.com/ --class UploadTestCase
用Drush来实现命令行执行测试--Linux平台
Drush后面跟一些命令可以来协助测试：
drush test mail : 运行测试套件，将结果发送到站点邮件. drush test clean: 清除测试套件表和遗留的文件. drush test drush : 测试drush (似乎只对drush有效)。
请阅读代码。本页浅表性地介绍地执行测试的脚本可以扩展，并可按自己的想法重复使用。
友好建议：
- 确保你是以web服务器端用户来运行测试。
- 如果你是通过远程shell在CLI上运行测试，screen(1) 实用工具对于长时间的测试会话很有效
- Xdebug扩展可能和有些测试有冲突。
- 或者禁用Xdebug,或在php.ini文件中[xdebug]下添加 xdebug.max_nesting_level=500.
命令行执行测试--Windows平台
Windows用户没有现成的.bat文件来容易地实现命令行测试。我认为编译一个.bat文件或安装cygwin来运行linux指令会更容易些。欢迎Windows开发者们来更新本章节，介绍最合适在windows平台使用的命令行测试。