Installing PHPUnit on Windows

Hello person(s), today I’ll present a step-by-step guide to installing PHPUnit on Uncle Bil Gates’ famous operating system, Microsoft Windows 7 (Seven), before continuing with the tutorial I wanted to talk a little about unit tests and test-driven development (the famous TDD – Test Driven Development).

So, what is TDD?

TDD is a method for building software, not just testing it. Through the “Red”, “Green”, “Refactoring” process, you notice that the code becomes clean, organized and best of all, working!

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phpunit --version

Now open a text editor and type the following source code:

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<?php

class HelloWorld
{
    public function msg( $message )
    {
        return $message;
    }
}

class HelloWorldTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    public function testHelloWorld()
    {
        $obj = new HelloWorld();

        $this->assertEquals( $obj->msg('Olá') , 'Olá' );
    }
}

Save the file as: HelloWorldTest.php

I saved the file in the directory: C:\teste

Now everything is working! Be a new developer from today onward and use unit tests, if you have questions, leave us a comment.