Guard::PHPUnit
Guard-phpunit allows you to automatically run [PHPUnit][6] tests when sources are modified. It helps with integrating test-driven development (TDD) into your development process: Just launch guard-phpunit before you start working and it will notify you about the status of your tests!
Note: Although guard-phpunit should work with any [PHP][7] version [PHPUnit][6] supports, it has only been tested on [PHP][7] 5.3.8 and 5.4.4.
Install
Please be sure to have [PHP][7], [PHPUnit][6] and [Ruby][1] installed on your machine before you proceed with the installation.
The latest versions of [Ruby][1] come with a packages-manager called gem
. gem
can be used to
install various packages, including guard-phpunit.
To install guard-phpunit, run the following command in the terminal:
$ gem install guard-phpunit
Usage
Please read the [Guard usage documentation][3].
Guardfile
Guard-phpunit can be used with any kind of [PHP][7] projects that uses PHPUnit as its testing framwork. Please read the [Guard documentation][3] for more information about the Guardfile DSL.
By default, guard-phpunit will use the current working directory (pwd) to
search for tests and run them on start (if you enabled the :all_on_start
option).
Example PHP project
The [PHPUnit documentaion][4] uses the [Object Freezer][5] library as an example on how
to organize tests. This project uses the Tests
directory for its tests.
An example of the Guardfile for the same project would look something like:
guard 'phpunit', :tests_path => 'Tests', :cli => '--colors' do
# Watch tests files
watch(%r{^.+Test\.php$})
# Watch library files and run their tests
watch(%r{^Object/(.+)\.php}) { |m| "Tests/#{m[1]}Test.php" }
end
Options
The following options can be passed to Guard::PHPUnit:
:all_on_start => false # Run all tests on startup.
# default: true
:all_after_pass => false # Run all tests after changed tests pass. This ensures
# that the process of making changed tests pass didn't
# break something else.
# default: true
:keep_failed => false # Remember failed tests and keep running them with
# each change until they pass.
# default: true
:tests_path => 'tests' # Relative path to the tests directory. This path
# is used when running all the tests.
# default: the current working directory (pwd)
:cli => '--colors' # The options passed to the phpunit command
# when running the tests.
# default: nil
Development
- Source hosted at GitHub
- Report issues/Questions/Feature requests on GitHub Issues
Pull requests are very welcome! Make sure your patches are well tested. Please create a topic branch for every separate change you make.
Author
[1]:http://ruby-lang.org [3]:https://github.com/guard/guard#readme [4]:http://www.phpunit.de/manual/current/en/ [5]:https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/php-object-freezer/ [6]:http://www.phpunit.de [7]:http://php.net