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A tool to automatically rerun PHPUnit tests when source code changes
License: MIT License
Languages: PHP
Wouldn't it be great if your PHPUnit tests would be automatically rerun whenever you change some code? This package can do exactly that.
With the package installed you can do this:
phpunit-watcher watch
Here's how it looks like:
This will run the tests and rerun them whenever a file in the app
, src
or tests
directory is modified.
Want to pass some arguments to PHPUnit? No problem, just tack them on:
phpunit-watcher watch --filter=it_can_run_a_single_test
In his excellent talk at Laracon EU 2017 Amo Chohan shows our phpunit-watcher in action.
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You can install this package globally like this
composer global require spatie/phpunit-watcher
After that phpunit-watcher watch
can be run in any directory on your system.
Alternatively you can install the package locally as a dev dependency in your project
composer require spatie/phpunit-watcher --dev
Locally installed you can run it with vendor/bin/phpunit-watcher watch
All the examples assume you've installed the package globally. If you opted for the local installation prepend vendor/bin/
everywhere where phpunit-watcher
is mentioned.
You can start the watcher with:
phpunit-watcher watch
This will run the tests and rerun them whenever a file in the src
or tests
directory is modified.
Want to pass some arguments to PHPUnit? No problem, just tack them on:
phpunit-watcher watch --filter=it_can_run_a_single_test
When running phpunit-watcher
from a Composer script, you may need to redirect input in order for the interactive commands to work and disabled the default timeout:
{
"scripts": {
"test:watch": [
"Composer\\Config::disableProcessTimeout",
"phpunit-watcher watch < /dev/tty"
]
}
}
On Windows, Currently, TTY is not being supported, so any interaction has been disabled. While watching for changes works,
any arguments for PHPUnit have to be provided when initially calling phpunit-watcher
.
Certain aspects of the behaviour of the tool can be modified. The file for options may be named .phpunit-watcher.yml
, phpunit-watcher.yml
or phpunit-watcher.yml.dist
. The tool will look for a file in that order.
If a config file does not exist in the project directory, the tool will check if a file exists in any of the parent directories of the project directory.
Here's some example content. Read on for a more detailed explanation of all the options.
watch:
directories:
- src
- tests
fileMask: '*.php'
notifications:
passingTests: false
failingTests: false
phpunit:
binaryPath: vendor/bin/phpunit
arguments: '--stop-on-failure'
timeout: 180
You can customize the directories being watched by creating a file named .phpunit-watcher.yml
in your project directory. Here's some example content:
watch:
directories:
- src
- tests
exclude:
- lib
fileMask: '*.php'
ignoreDotFiles: true
ignoreVCS: true
ignoreVCSIgnored: false
See the documentation for Finder for more details.
If you experience performance delays with large repositories, try adding exclude
entries for any large subdirectories that you don't need to watch. Enabling the ignore...
options can also be helpful. It's also important to ensure you're also using the '*.php'
file mask.
By default the tool will display desktop notifications whenever the tests pass or fail. If you want to disable certain desktop notifications update .phpunit-watcher.yml
by adding a notifications
key.
notifications:
passingTests: false
failingTests: false
By default the tool will display a helper for keyboard actions after each run. You can hide these help messages by adding a hideManual
key in the .phpunit-watcher.yml
.
hideManual: true
By default the tool use vendor/bin/phpunit
as default PHPUnit binary file, however, it may be useful to be able to customize this value for people who have a binary file in a different location.
You can specificy it in the .phpunit-watcher.yml
config file. Here's an example:
phpunit:
binaryPath: ./vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit
If you want to use pass the same arguments to PHPUnit everytime to watcher starts, you can specificy those in the .phpunit-watcher.yml
config file. Here's an example:
phpunit:
arguments: '--stop-on-failure'
When starting the tool with some arguments (eg phpunit-watcher watch --filter=my_favourite_test
) those arguments will get used instead of the ones specified in the config file.
Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.
composer test
Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.
If you've found a bug regarding security please mail [email protected] instead of using the issue tracker.
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We started creating this package after reading this excellent article by Christoper Pitt
Interactive commands were inspired by Jest.
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