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

A dead simple way to do this, using inotifywait and a bash script:

#!/bin/bash
while true; do
  FILE=$(inotifywait --exclude=".*.*sw*" --exclude="4913" ./ --format "%w%f" -e close_write) &&
  clear &&
  phpunit --color $FILE
done

Then you just run that in a terminal (or however you want) and you're good. I'm running tmux, so I just have a stacked pane set up, with a little window to see my test results. Just run this script in the directory where your tests live.

Works well for me.

Also, this script is Vim friendly (Vim creates a file, 4913, during saves, this script ignores it).

It was totally inspired from various places around the web -- probably even from some of these answers.