Run PHPUnit tests on change

Question

I\'d like to run my PHPUnit tests (or at least a subset of them) whenever a file changes on disk. Very similar to what you can do with \"grunt watch\". I have a project in which

Answer 1

You can use node watch which is quite sweet:

Run npm init to set up a package (takes a minute), then

npm install --save-dev watch

Then edit your package.json file to include these two entries:

"scripts": {
  "test": "bin/phpunit tests --color",
  "test:watch": "watch 'npm run --silent test' ."
},

Then trigger the watching with:

npm run test:watch

(credit due to this interesting article)