Slow running tests are a bug - they stop you from doing as much as you can with your code, & its quality. Spend a little time working on making your tests better, clearer, and faster - and you'll reap rewards from your work. I've had a couple of useful improvements in the time spent running my PHPunit tests …

One of the advantages of a side-project is that you can be a little extra passionate about getting things just right. If you want to increase code coverage because you think that it's good, you can - after all, it's just some time now doing things that you like. So, earlier in the year, when I saw Sebastian Bergmann's …

Having just watched Sebastian Bergmann's "The State of PHPUnit" presentation from Fosdem 2015, I was inspired to install and test a project of mine with the latest stable PHPUnit - v4.7. It was easily installed on the command line. composer global require "phpunit/phpunit" I installed it as a new, …