Strange output from PHPUnit

Question

I have installed the PHPUnit via the PEAR, and also I have installed the WordPress Plugin Test (https://github.com/tierra/wordpress-plugin-tests) to test my WordPress Plugin

Answer 1

Those are color codes for unix consoles and they are hard coded in the phpunit framework as you can see here: https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/blob/master/PHPUnit/TextUI/ResultPrinter.php

Example: lines 500 to 509.

public function addError(PHPUnit_Framework_Test $test, Exception $e, $time)
    {
        if ($this->colors) {
            $this->writeProgress("\x1b[31;1mE\x1b[0m");
        } else {
            $this->writeProgress('E');
        }

        $this->lastTestFailed = TRUE;
    }

I believe you can hide the colors setting the attribute colors="false" in your phpunit.xml file:

<phpunit colors="false">
  <!-- ... -->
</phpunit>

You can read more here: http://phpunit.de/manual/3.7/en/appendixes.configuration.html