How to use phpunit installed from composer?

Question

I want to start unit testing my symfony 2 application with phpunit. I installed phpunit using composer (per-project dependancy). http://www.phpunit.de/manual/current/en/installation.html

How do I now run the phpunit command on Zend Server? I don't have pear installed.

Wouter J · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-11T11:25:06.127

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If you followed the documentation, you have set the phpunit/phpunit dependency as a 'dev-dependency'.

If you don't have composer, you need to install it first. This is explained in the documentation: Installation *nix or Installation Windows. If you already installed composer, it is a good practise to update composer to the latest version by running the self-update command:

$ php composer.phar self-update

After your have done that, you need to install all dependencies, including the dev dependencies. This is done by running the update command with the --dev switch:

$ php composer.phar update --dev

All the dependencies are installed in the vendor directory. PHPunit runs from the console. Composer automatic put the console files inside the vendor/bin directory. You need to execute the phpunit file in there:

$ vendor/bin/phpunit -c app/

The -c switch tells PHPUnit to look for the configuration file in the app directory, Symfony2 already set up the correct configuration to run all tests that are in the <bundle>/Tests directory.

UPDATE (05-04-2013)

Composer has changed their update/install commands. update will install dev dependencies by default and if you want to install dev dependencies, you need to use the --dev option.

UPDATE (11-06-2013)

Composer has changed their commands again, the install command will also install dev dependencies.

edited Jul 11 '13 at 11:25

answered Dec 07 '12 at 14:20

Wouter J

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Aha! missed the --dev :p Anyway, I get the following error now: `Warning: include(C:\Program Files (x86)\Zend\Apache2\Program Files (x86)\Zend\Ap ache2\htdocs\project1\vendor\phpunit\phpunit\PHPUnit\TextUI\Command.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\Program Files (x86)\Zend\Apache 2\htdocs\project1\vendor\composer\ClassLoader.php on line 150.` The file does exist though. – Tjorriemorrie Dec 07 '12 at 14:36
I continued my error here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13765651/phpunits-textui-command-php-not-found – Tjorriemorrie Dec 07 '12 at 15:04
@WouterJ Did you mean "update will _not_ install dev dependencies by dafault"? – Danack Jul 10 '13 at 18:22
@Danack no, the update command will install dev dependencies by default – Wouter J Jul 10 '13 at 19:12
@WouterJ Er, looks like I need to run composer self-update again. – Danack Jul 11 '13 at 09:40
I ended up installing all these dependencies for PHPUnit to stop complaining: php-invoker, dbunit, phpunit-selenium and phpunit-story. Don't know why it needs all that. – Parziphal Jul 22 '14 at 20:23
@WouterJ, Regarding your updates, Why does composer keep changing their commands in non backwards-compatible ways? – Pacerier Jul 30 '15 at 10:02
@Pacerier the commands were changed once. And it was back in 2013, where Composer was still in early development. – Wouter J Jul 30 '15 at 10:11

score 24 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 12 '16 at 06:05

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What about more composer way?

composer exec phpunit

It can be used for every binary file in vendor/bin directory.

answered Aug 12 '16 at 06:05

StalkAlex

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Script phpunit handling the __exec_command event returned with error code 2 – Jordan Aug 09 '19 at 20:40

score 17 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 12 '14 at 11:11

UPDATE (12-02-2014)

Composer and PHPUnit have changed their commands again. The install command will also install dev dependencies:

Composer.json:

...
"require-dev": {
    "phpunit/phpunit": "3.7.*"
},

Run it:

$ composer.phar update --prefer-dist --dev

Now you can run your tests by:

$ bin/phpunit -c /app

Cheers,

score 13 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 04 '17 at 14:39

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I like to define a script within composer.json, so that I can just run:

$ composer test
# ... runs phpunit

To do so, I need to modify composer.json to contain an entry like this:

"scripts": {
    "test": [
        "phpunit tests/*.php"
    ]
}

answered Aug 04 '17 at 14:39

Flimm

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André · Answer 5 · 2016-06-09T05:25:30.103

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For Symfony 3 add "phpunit/phpunit": "5.4.*" to the "require-dev" section in your composer.json and run tests from the applications root directory with:

./vendor/bin/phpunit tests

edited Jun 09 '16 at 05:25

answered Jun 04 '16 at 10:59

André

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Thanks, fixed that. :) – André Jun 09 '16 at 05:25
Of course if you're using a legacy project layout, the command would be something like ./vendor/bin/phpunit src/AppBundle/Tests – Acyra Sep 09 '17 at 13:08

Alex · Answer 6 · 2015-08-28T22:49:23.520

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Add it as dev dependency, in your project directory:

composer require --dev "phpunit/phpunit=4.8.*"

The installed phpunit can now be executed with:

./vendor/bin/phpunit

edited Aug 28 '15 at 22:49

answered Aug 26 '15 at 08:20

Alex

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You can now use version: `5.3.*` instead. – Melroy van den Berg Apr 18 '16 at 23:58

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