Install PHPUNIT with Composer

When you install PHP-Unit in windows via composer, the global installation will create files in

C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Composer

To execute phpunit easily via command line you need to add path of phpunit.bat file in windows Environment Variables. For this:

1. Right click My Computer
2. Go to Properties -> Advance system settings and
3. Click Environment variables from the Advance tab.

Now add C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\bin to the windows PATH.

You can now run the phpunit from command. Note that you may need to restart your command prompt for the changes to take effect.

The bin file of packages are put in the configured bin directory. By default, this is vendor/bin and when you use the symfony standard edition, this is the bin folder.

To execute this bin file, run ./bin/phpunit (or ./vendor/bin/phpunit when not using the Symfony Standard Edition)

Windows users have to put this in double quotes: "bin/phpunit" (or "vendor/bin/phpunit")

composer require --dev phpunit/phpunit ^7

The above example assumes, composer is already on your $PATH variable.

You composer.json should look similar to;

{  "name": "vendor_name/package_name",  "description": "This project is for practicing writing php unit tests",  "minimum-stability": "stable",  "license": "proprietary",  "authors": [    {      "name": "Umair Anwar",      "email": "umair.anwar@gmail.com"    }  ],  "autoload": {    "classmap": [      "src/"    ]  },  "require-dev": {    "phpunit/phpunit": "^7",    "phpunit/dbunit": "^4.0"  }}