Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney on 01/07/05 18:59

* dAniel hAhler <genml@thequod.de>:
> I'm looking for a PHP Unit Test framework and found so far:
> SimpleTest: https://sourceforge.net/projects/simpletest/
> PEAR PHPUnit:
> - http://pear.php.net/package/PHPUnit
> - http://pear.php.net/package/PHPUnit2
> Sourceforge PHPUnit: http://phpunit.sourceforge.net/
>
> While SF PHPUnit seems to have stalled (2002-10) there are still PEAR
> PHPUnit and Simpletest.
>
> I'd like to hear your opinions/experiences on what's better to use.
>
> I'm mainly searching it for an OSS project, but would like to use it at
> work, too.
>
> I'm still on PHP4 mainly - but tests could be done/run with PHP5 of
> course (if PHPUnit2 supports that).

I've used both PEAR::PHPUnit and SimpleTest. I like SimpleTest better...
mainly because it's documented so well. I was up and running with
SimpleTest in a matter of an hour, whereas I'd struggled for the better
part of a day trying to figure out from the docs how to use PHPUnit --
and only managed a portion of what I accomplished with SimpleTest in
that hour.

'Course, the PHPUnit docs may have been improved since I last tried it
-- YMMV.

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