How to execute choice of test cases from multiple test cases

You may run single test cases or single test classes from your suites using the --filter cli option:

--filter <pattern>        Filter which tests to run.

--filter runs tests whose name matches the given pattern. The pattern can be either the name of a single test or a regular expression that matches multiple test names.

Example

Take the following example test class BlaTest containing test cases testSame and testElse in file BlaTest.php:

// BlaTest.php<?phpclass BlaTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {    public function testSame() { $this->assertSame(1,1); }    public function testElse() { $this->assertSame(1,1); }}

Running all test cases within BlaTest

This filter matches the test class name.

$ phpunit --filter BlaTest

Running a single test case within BlaTest

This filter matches the test case name, then indicates to run this filter across file BlaTest.php.

$ phpunit --filter testSame BlaTest.php

--filter option accepts regular expression as its value (I'm using phpunit 3.7). This lets you specify the tests which will be excluded by using assertion like following: --filter='/::((?!test(Else|Same))\w+)/'

If you prefer to filter code-wise you could mark the test to be skipped within the setUp()-method [1] by checking which test is about to be run using $this->getName(). That way these tests will show up as being skipped.

An example:

class FooTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {  public function setUp() {    if( 'testIwantToSkip' === $this->getName() ) {      $this->markTestSkipped( 'Test skipped!' );    }  }  ...}

[1] http://www.phpunit.de/manual/current/en/fixtures.html