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PHPUnit does more than unit testing

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+  PHPUnit does more than unit testing
+pubDate: 2023-11-13
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+  archive/2023/11/13/phpunit-does-more-than-unit-testing
+tags:
+  - software-development
+  - automated-testing
+  - software-development
+  - test-driven-development
+  - phpunit
+  - php
+  - drupal
+  - symfony
+---
+
+As the name suggests, [PHPUnit][] is a unit testing framework for PHP.
+
+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.
+
+These frameworks extend PHPUnit to give it more functionality.
+
+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.
+
+## There's the thing...
+
+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