“Web interface” to PHPUnit tests?

Question

Is there a simple \"Web interface\" to running PHPUnit test suites? i.e. a PHP script that runs the test on the command line, and outputs a nicely formatted HTML result.

Answer 1

jframework also has a nice UI for PHPUnit. It breaks the results, and shows test coverage on all files and each file separately. It works on both web and cli, with the cli one having the benefit of dumping every test after its done (the web-based one has to wait until everything is over).

Answer 2

Ok you said you'd prefer an independent IDE solution, but just so you know there is a recent plugin that enables executing PHPUnit simply into Eclipse, and having a nice representation (like in Zend Studio, but for free).

Here is the link, the main developper replies fast to emails too if you have a problem :

http://www.phpsrc.org/wiki/

I personnaly tested some web interface, but I have always been deceived (not really practital and stable). But this is your choice.

Answer 3

I've never seen such a web-interface... But, as you say you are always using your IDE and your webbrowser, why not think the other way ?

i.e. a possible solution would be to launch the unittests from your IDE ;-)
Which means you should be able to click on the failing tests to "jump" to either the test method, or the reason that caused the test to fail, for instance.

In the PHP + PHPUnit world, I know that Zend Studio does that -- yes, it's not free, unfortunatly ;-(

Using Eclipse PDT, a solution would be to register PHPUnit as an external tool (see or instance this blogpost : Using PHPUnit with Eclipse PDT) -- but it's quite not sexy, and you cannot click on the results to jump the the methods/tests...

Another solution would be to develop a plugin to integrate PHPUnit into Eclipse PDT (like it's been done for Zend Studio, I suppose) -- A phpunit4eclipse was created some time ago, but it's just a start, and didn't get much succes, so the author didn't work on it after releasing that...

Answer 4

You can use Jenkins to run any kind of tasks including PHPUnit tests. It can automatically checkout your app, run the tests, build a HTML report and even email you if the build fails.

Here's the templates you need to setup Jenkins to build a bunch of interesting reports and stats from your project.

Answer 5

You can always use the Maven for PHP from which you can use the surefire reports (mvn site). More info here: http://www.php-maven.org

Answer 6

I recently discovered Visual PHPUnit which looks like a very very nice interface for everyone that doesn't want to run PHPUnit from the command line:

It seems to be the next iteration of @Matt's PHPUnit Test Report