MyUnit - Extensible PHPUnit Integration for Laravel

MyUnit is the a standalone version of the PHPUnit integration in the Laravel core. It has been extracted into the form of a Laravel bundle, so the developer is free add in their own features and configurations without changing any of the core Laravel source files.

Features

Myunit opens a whole new world testing of testing options to Laravel developers. It is able to run as a core Artisan task, eliminating the need to call it as a bundle with the Artisan CLI.

Now You Can

• Use PHPUnit with Selenium.
• Run tests under their own Laravel configuration.
• Group your tests logically.

Installation

Install as any other Laravel bundle by running

php artisan bundle:install myunit

Add the bundle to your application bundle registry by adding it to myproject/application/bundles.php

<?php
return array(

        'otherbundle' => array('autostart' => true),
        'myunit',

    );

Usage

Basic

The most basic way to run MyUnit is to run it as a bundle task with Artisan.

$ php artisan myunit::test

Going Further

You can register MyUnit as a built-in artisan task by adding the following to the bottom of your myproject/application/start.php

<?php
if (Request::cli())
{
  Bundle::start('myunit');
}

Now you can run MyUnit by issuing:

$ php artisan myunit

MyUnit will then run in the exact same manner as if you had called it as a bundle task.

Hacking and Configuration

At this point you are free to make edits and add features to MyUnit. Because MyUnit simply wraps the built-in Laravel 'test' task it has the same behavior as you'd expect from the Laravel built-in PHPUnit wrapper.

In the MyUnit bundle root directory, there is a sub-directory coretasks with the contents

$ ls coretasks/
phpunit.php  runner.php  stub.xml

The file phpunit.php, and stub.xml, are both extracted straight from the Laravel core without modification. The file runner.php is a a subclass of the Laravel core task of the same name and function.
You are free to edit any of these files and add your own features without the trials and tribulations of hacking the Laravel Core.

Contribute

Please send me your pull requests if you have any cool features or bug fixes to share.