I am using the Symfony3 plugin in PhpStorm. My PHP Interpreter is 7.0.18. I have PHPUnit 6.3.0 configured in PhpStorm by having the .phar file in the root directory
Installation of PHPUnit via composer worked. It turns out my composer installation went wrong in some way. After composer was successfully installed, I let it handle installing PHPUnit. After that it just worked. Tests work fine in the IDE and the server is responsive again. Thanks LazyOne.