Implement PHPUnit as a (PHP) ScriptComponent

[andreasnrb]

Since you need to run phpunit in the VM for the WP integration test to work adding it either to box or during provision would be good. If provision probably some check if installed should be added so it doesn't get redownloaded or anything like that unless there is update.

[mikeschinkel]

@andreasnrb Can you give more details about exactly what you would like here?

[andreasnrb]

Well just that phpunit is installed globally on provision probably using
Composer. Which version is to be used I'm not sure. I just use the latest
personally. PHPUnit by default or not is probably a personal dev choice
though. Might be a thing people add on their own to Composer if/when they
fork the wplib repo?

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[clubdeuce]

I think this should be left to the individual developer.

[mikeschinkel]

I am still open to the idea, but I'd like to hear from 5 or 10 other developers to see what they think and how they think having it in the box vs. just installing on the host/developer's machine would be useful.

[mikeschinkel]

So @clubdeuce and I discussed this and we came up with the following:

1. PHPUnit should be installed per project using Composer to ensure project-level compatibility,
2. However, WPLib Box should run unit tests on Git commit, and
3. Our future command line tool should allow invoking PHP to run inside WPLib Box (the guest) and allow for output on the developer's command line (the host's command line).

We wanted to run this by everyone here and has out the requirements to make sure we have them right before we go to implement them.

[mikeschinkel]

@MickMakes I am revisiting this.

PHPUnit is something WPLib Box should make trivially easy. We should also make it possible to use with PhpStorm on a host machine to debug unit testing run from within the box, if at all possible (not sure, but this might help.)

[mikeschinkel]

The PHPUnit site includes the different versions of PHPUnit and which versions or PHP they work with, currently:

Major Version	PHP Compatibility	Initial Release	Support
PHPUnit 8	PHP 7.2, PHP 7.3, PHP 7.4	Feb 1, 2019	Support ends on Feb 5, 2021
PHPUnit 7	PHP 7.1, PHP 7.2, PHP 7.3	Feb 2, 2018	Support ends on Feb 7, 2020
PHPUnit 6	PHP 7.0, PHP 7.1, PHP 7.2	Feb 3, 2017	Support ends on Feb 1, 2019
PHPUnit 5	PHP 5.6, PHP 7.0, PHP 7.1	Oct 2, 2015	Support ended on Feb 2, 2018