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PHP PHP Testing Your First Tests Building your test cases

Jordan Riser
Jordan Riser
5,819 Points
Posted by Jordan Riser
Jordan Riser
5,819 Points

Where do I put files

I don't understand where these files he's opening up are located and how they talk to each other. I have a phpunit.xml file in the root and a tests folder with the test but when I run 'vendor/bin/phpunit' no tests get run. Am I supposed to put the phpunit.xml file in the vendor/bin?

2 Answers

Gerrit Verhaar
Gerrit Verhaar
17,742 Points
Gerrit Verhaar
Gerrit Verhaar
17,742 Points

In the video on 01-pig-latin.php both source and test files were stored in the root directory. Run the test with: 

vendor/bin/phpunit 01-pig-latin.php

You could move the test file to a tests directory and run it with:

vendor/bin/phpunit tests/01-pig-latin.php

If you want to run a full directory you need to keep in mind that PHP Unit will look for *Test.php files. I had to rename my tests/01-pig-latin.php file to tests/01-pig-latin-Test.php in order to run it with:

vendor/bin/phpunit
Gareth Nicoll
Gareth Nicoll
2,169 Points
Gareth Nicoll
Gareth Nicoll
2,169 Points

The following structure works for me but in example he shows he just has both files in the root I think. I have it structured 

- root
|-- composer.json
|-- composer.lock
|-- vendor
|-- PigLatin.php
|-- phpunit.xml
|-- tests
|    |-- PigLatinTest.php

My phpunit.xml looks like 

<phpunit backupGlobals="true" bootstrap="tests/bootstrap.php">
    <filter>
        <blacklist>
            <directory>vendor</directory>
        </blacklist>
    </filter>
    <testsuite>
        <directory>tests</directory>
    </testsuite>
</phpunit>