Running phpunit tests using HHVM (HipHop)

Question

I am trying to run PHPUnit unit tests via HHVM on a virtual Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit Server) install. The tests usually run using a phpunit.xml file located in my tests directory, w

Answer 1

HHVM 2.4+

HHVM 2.4.0 was just released and it came with full phpunit support! Just give the full path to phpunit binary, like this:

$ hhvm /usr/bin/phpunit

Cheers!

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HHVM 2.3

Tested this step by step guide from HHVM wiki and it works. Here is a simplified guide:

On your project, add the following entries to your composer.json file:

"require-dev": {
    "phpunit/phpunit": "3.7.*",
    "phpunit/php-invoker": "1.1.3",
    "phpunit/dbunit": "1.2.3",
    "phpunit/phpunit-selenium": "1.3.2",
    "phpunit/phpunit-story": "1.0.2"
}

1. Run hhvm composer.phar install --dev. If you did a composer system wide install, run hhvm /usr/local/bin/composer install --dev, it works too.

2. A vendor directory will be created. The phpunit "binary" will be located at vendor/bin/phpunit

3. To run PHPUnit for your project: hhvm vendor/bin/phpunit [optional arguments]

Note: Probably in a not so distant future hhvm /usr/local/bin/phpunit [optional arguments] will work as expected, but right now this is the easiest option we have