Phpunit

Quick tutorial how to setup proper unit testing with PHPUnit and CodeIgniter 3.0. We need couple elements CodeIgniter – we are working with version 3.0rc3 PHPUnit – latest one If you don’t have phpunit installed globally, you can go with composer, just add section to your composer.json { "require-dev": { "phpunit/phpunit": "4.1.*" } } and then composer.phar install and after while we have ./vendor/bin/phpunit working phpunit. let’s create phpunit.xml.dist next step will require create separate bootstrap file for PHPUnit.

There is a plenty of tutorials how to install PEAR and PHP, but there is always something “missing” in this configuration. So this time, i’m going to “sing the same song again”.