phpunit command doesn't work for laravel 4 on windows 7

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I've recently installed laravel and have written some tests in /tests directory but when I use phpunit at cmd in the same folder that phpunit.xml exists, it says 'phpunit' is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file.. I'm using windows 7. what should I do?

To be able to run commands with `phpunit`. It was working before? — Rahil Wazir, Jun 21 '14 at 19:51
no it wasn't , so you mean I should add the phpunit executable to PATH yeah? — Ramin Omrani, Jun 21 '14 at 19:53
Big yes! If it isn't already. Try `echo %PATH%` in cmd and see the output contain `phpunit` — Rahil Wazir, Jun 21 '14 at 19:54

score 44 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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The solution for me:

php vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit

This, of course, assumes you've set up a php environment variable in Windows

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answered Aug 24 '14 at 18:11

Chris

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score 21 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 22 '15 at 02:24

As Unnawut said, it doesn't work because vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit is not a native Windows executable. You need a .bat or .cmd file that will basically call 'php phpunit'. There should be one in vendor/bin, but to make life easy, try this - create a file phpunit.bat (or .cmd) at the root of your site, containing this:

@ECHO OFF
SET BIN_TARGET=%~dp0/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit
php "%BIN_TARGET%" %*

Now you can call phpunit from the command line at the root of the site.

Emeka Mbah · Answer 3 · 2015-05-28T08:18:20.087

If you are a window user and you are having this issue, do this:

You need to tell Window where to find PHPUnit command, you can first of all verify that this file exists in your Laravel project under /vendor/bin

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Finally you need to append the full path to /vendor/bin in your window PATH variable,

To do this: 1. Right-click on 'Computer' then click properties

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On the second window click Advanced system settings

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On the next window under Advanced click Environmental Variables

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On the next window double-click PATH then set PATH variable by appending

the full path to your laravel-project/vendor/bin; Notice the ; at the end.

NB: Other variables might already exists in the PATH, so ensure you don't overwrite them by appending your own at the very end

Finally click Ok on all the dialog boxes

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Thanks for detailed explanation. Solves my problem. – Sajidur Rahman Sep 27 '17 at 20:24 — Sajidur Rahman, Sep 27 '17 at 20:24

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 30 '16 at 16:04

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alias phpunit="vendor/bin/phpunit"

answered Jul 30 '16 at 16:04

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vimuth · Answer 5 · 2018-05-15T05:53:30.767

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I added this command in command line instead of just "phpunit"

vendor\bin\phpunit

That worked for me.

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answered May 14 '18 at 17:22

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I explained a bit more :) – vimuth May 15 '18 at 05:54
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Or you can add `./vendor/bin` to the PATH environment variable. This way you can just call `phpunit` from any Laravel root folder. – Arno van Oordt Feb 23 '20 at 10:13
@ArnovanOordtPlease submit your comment as an answer to this question. It easy to implement, is permanent and has global scope. It is the best answer here and deserves it's own post. – Crazy World May 27 '20 at 02:03

score 4 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 09 '19 at 14:23

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Install phpunit globally:

composer global require phpunit/phpunit

Afterwards you will be able to run phpunit ( even on Windows ):

phpunit

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score 3 · Answer 7 · answered Jun 21 '14 at 19:50

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The phpunit executable is not in your project root folder, that's why it can't find it.

Now I assume that you already have phpunit in your composer.json file, something like this:

"require-dev": {
    "phpunit/phpunit": "3.7.*"
}

When installed by composer, the package will be installed to vendor/vendor_name/package_name. So to run it at your project root, type this command:

vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit

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`composer update` and after that do `vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit` from the folder you have `phpunit.xml` – Unnawut Jun 21 '14 at 20:04
Oh well I guess that's as far as I could help. Good luck! – Unnawut Jun 21 '14 at 20:06

score 2 · Answer 8 · answered Oct 23 '20 at 22:31

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This working for me

In double quotes this command in console windows

"vendor/bin/phpunit"

answered Oct 23 '20 at 22:31

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score 1 · Answer 9 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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Borrowing from @Chris' excellent answer:
Even better, you can make vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit an environment variable, say "phpunit" and whenever you want to run the test in any laravel project you just call php %phpunit%.

Demonstration

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answered Jan 06 '19 at 03:22

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Mar 19 '18 at 12:32

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If it says the following:

$ phpunit tests/Feature/ExampleTest.php PHPUnit 3.7.21 by Sebastian Bergmann.

Class 'tests/Feature/ExampleTest' could not be found in 'C:\xampp\htdocs\blog1\tests\Feature\ExampleTest.php'.

Instead of typing tests/Feature/ExampleTest.php you say tests " \\Feature\\Example.test" because you're using windows, not mac. :) GL & HF

Using just \ or / will give errors :)

answered Mar 19 '18 at 12:32

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It wasn't saying that. The error message was something else – Mark Walet Mar 19 '18 at 12:38

score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Jul 02 '20 at 22:29

With Laravel phpunit is set up right out of the box. The easiest way to run it on Windows is to add an entry to scripts in your package.json file...

"scripts": {
    ...
    "tests": "php vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit"
},

Now you simply run unit tests with

npm run tests

phpunit command doesn't work for laravel 4 on windows 7

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