phpunit command doesn't work for laravel 4 on windows 7

Question

I\'ve recently installed laravel and have written some tests in /tests directory but when I use phpunit at cmd in the same folder that phpunit.xml

Answer 1

If it says the following:

$ phpunit tests/Feature/ExampleTest.php PHPUnit 3.7.21 by Sebastian Bergmann.

Class 'tests/Feature/ExampleTest' could not be found in 'C:\xampp\htdocs\blog1\tests\Feature\ExampleTest.php'.

Instead of typing tests/Feature/ExampleTest.php you say tests " \\Feature\\Example.test" because you're using windows, not mac. :) GL & HF

Using just \ or / will give errors :)

Answer 2

This working for me

In double quotes this command in console windows

"vendor/bin/phpunit"

Answer 3

As Unnawut said, it doesn't work because vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit is not a native Windows executable. You need a .bat or .cmd file that will basically call 'php phpunit'. There should be one in vendor/bin, but to make life easy, try this - create a file phpunit.bat (or .cmd) at the root of your site, containing this:

@ECHO OFF
SET BIN_TARGET=%~dp0/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit
php "%BIN_TARGET%" %*

Now you can call phpunit from the command line at the root of the site.

Answer 4

The solution for me:

php vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit

This, of course, assumes you've set up a php environment variable in Windows

Answer 5

The phpunit executable is not in your project root folder, that's why it can't find it.

Now I assume that you already have phpunit in your composer.json file, something like this:

"require-dev": {
    "phpunit/phpunit": "3.7.*"
}

When installed by composer, the package will be installed to vendor/vendor_name/package_name. So to run it at your project root, type this command:

vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit