Feb 3, 2023 · Welcome to PHPUnit! PHPUnit is a programmer-oriented testing framework for PHP. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks.

This tutorial assumes that you use PHP 7.3 or PHP 7.4. You will learn how to write simple unit tests as well as how to download and run PHPUnit 9.

This tutorial assumes that you use PHP 8.3 or PHP 8.4. You will learn how to write simple unit tests as well as how to download and run PHPUnit 12.

On this page you will find the documentation for the different versions of PHPUnit.

PHPUnit supports different ways of organizing tests and composing them into a test suite. This chapter shows the most commonly used approaches. Composing a Test Suite Using the …

Unit Tests are primarily written as a good practice to help developers identify and fix bugs, to refactor code and to serve as documentation for a unit of software under test.

Feb 7, 2025 · We cleaned up PHPUnit's functionality for programmatically creating test stubs and mock objects. We did this primarily to make working with test doubles easier and less …

This attribute configures whether the PHPUnit test runner should exit with a shell exit code that indicates failure when all tests are successful but there are tests that triggered a notice …

PHPUnit can help you identify risky tests, for instance lying tests that give you a false sense of security. Tests that are considered risky do not contribute to code coverage.

A test usually follows the “Arrange, Act, Assert” structure: arranging all necessary preconditions and inputs (the so-called test fixture), acting on the object under test, and asserting that the …