Anyone knows something like RSPec for PHP? [closed]

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RSPec is a great ruby test framework (for test driven development), anyone knows something like rspec but, for PHP?

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PHPSpec is a Behaviour-Driven Development framework for php. I've not used it myself yet, though, so I can't comment on it specifically.

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Behat! Built on top of Symfony 2 components. Syntactically, not as nice as Ruby implementation but still get the benefits of BDD.

I just stumbled upon it myself and haven't used it yet. From a glance, it looks like it's using closures (which it would need to do to work like RSpec/Cucumber) which is a PHP 5.3 addition.

http://behat.org/

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PHPUnit is the de-facto standard for UnitTesting in PHP.
It can do BD Testing to a limited extent:

The PHPUnit_Extensions_Story_TestCase class adds a story framework that faciliates the definition of a Domain-Specific Language for Behaviour-Driven Development. Inside a scenario, given(), when(), and then() each represent a step. and() is the same kind as the previous step. The following methods are declared abstract in PHPUnit_Extensions_Story_TestCase and need to be implemented:

runGiven(&$world, $action, $arguments)
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runWhen(&$world, $action, $arguments)
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runThen(&$world, $action, $arguments)
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Edit: An more sophisticated alternative might be Cucumber with Behat

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There are few of RSpec clones in PHP.

PHPSpec Spectrum

Also there is an original testing framework Codeception

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If you are only intrested in the output of tests, you could use phpunit-progress which makes your tests results look exactly like RSpecs' results.

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Selenium is another one worth to mention here.