How to run single test method with phpunit?

Question

I am struggling to run a single test method named testSaveAndDrop in the file escalation/EscalationGroupTest.php with phpunit. I tried

Answer 1

You Can try this i am able to run single Test cases

phpunit tests/{testfilename}

Eg:

phpunit tests/StackoverflowTest.php

If you want to run single Test cases in Laravel 5.5 Try

vendor/bin/phpunit tests/Feature/{testfilename} 

vendor/bin/phpunit tests/Unit/{testfilename} 

Eg:

vendor/bin/phpunit tests/Feature/ContactpageTest.php 

vendor/bin/phpunit tests/Unit/ContactpageTest.php

Answer 2

If you're using an XML configuration file, you can add the following inside the phpunit tag:

<groups>
  <include>
    <group>nameToInclude</group>
  </include>
  <exclude>
    <group>nameToExclude</group>
  </exclude>
</groups>

See https://phpunit.de/manual/current/en/appendixes.configuration.html

Answer 3

The reason your tests are all being run is that you have the --filter flag after the file name. PHPUnit is not reading the options at all and so is running all the test cases.

From the help screen:

 Usage: phpunit [options] UnitTest [UnitTest.php]
        phpunit [options] <directory>

So move the --filter argument before the test file that you want as mentioned in @Alex and @Ferid Mövsümov answers. And you should only have the test that you want run.

Answer 4

The following command runs the test on a single method:

phpunit --filter testSaveAndDrop EscalationGroupTest escalation/EscalationGroupTest.php

phpunit --filter methodName ClassName path/to/file.php

For newer versions of phpunit, it is just:

phpunit --filter methodName path/to/file.php

Answer 5

If you're in netbeans you can right click in the test method and click "Run Focused Test Method".

Answer 6

You must use --filter to run a single test method php phpunit --filter "/::testMethod( .*)?$/" ClassTest ClassTest.php

The above filter will run testMethod alone.