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title: >
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PHPUnit does more than unit testing
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pubDate: 2023-11-13
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permalink: >-
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archive/2023/11/13/phpunit-does-more-than-unit-testing
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tags:
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- software-development
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- automated-testing
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- software-development
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- test-driven-development
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- phpunit
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- php
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- drupal
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- symfony
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---
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As the name suggests, [PHPUnit][] is a unit testing framework for PHP.
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It's the defacto PHP testing framework used by the major PHP projects, such as Drupal, Symfony, Laravel.
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But unit testing isn't all that PHPUnit can do.
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These frameworks extend PHPUnit to give it more functionality.
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Drupal allows you to run functional/browser tests to make requests to pages, check the response codes and content, as well as integration/kernel tests to test real services instead of relying on mocking within unit tests.
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Symfony does the same with its web and kernel test cases.
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## Here's the thing
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If you use a framework and want to more than unit testing, intsead of including another testing framework, try using some of the PHPUnit extensions that are provided by the framework.
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[phpunit]: http://phpunit.de
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