PHPUnit is a programmer-oriented testing framework for PHP. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks.

We distribute a PHP Archive (PHAR) that has all required (as well as some optional) dependencies of PHPUnit bundled in a single file:

$ wget https://phar.phpunit.de/phpunit.phar

$ chmod  x phpunit.phar

$ mv phpunit.phar /usr/local/bin/phpunit

You can also immediately use the PHAR after you have downloaded it, of course:

$ wget https://phar.phpunit.de/phpunit.phar

$ php phpunit.phar

Alternatively, you may use Composer to download and install PHPUnit as well as its dependencies. Please refer to the documentation for details on how to do this.

Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.md for information on how to contribute to PHPUnit and its related projects.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to PHPUnit! You can find a detailed list of contributors on every PHPUnit related package on GitHub. This list shows only the major components:

• PHPUnit
• PHP_CodeCoverage
• PHPUnit_MockObject

A very special thanks to everyone who has contributed to the documentation and helps maintain the translations:

• PHPUnit Documentation