How to trigger unit testing from Laravel Artisan

Question

I have a situation where i have some unit tests with PHPUnit, and i want to trigger them from the artisan console utility of laravel. I have googled and i have not found any reference, Is it possible? I am not asking how to test artisan commands. or how to dynamically call another artisan command, but to trigger unit tests from artisan

I can call certain commands using Artisan facade like

Artisan::call('migrate'); //which calls migration

like this is there a way i can call unit tests? I am using PHPUnit

Possible duplicate of [Laravel 5 dynamically run migrations](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37953783/laravel-5-dynamically-run-migrations) — Nikola Gavric, Feb 11 '18 at 18:25

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 11 '18 at 18:23

You can use symfony's process command, which drives Laravel's artisan command under the hood anyway:

use Symfony\Component\Process\Process;
use Symfony\Component\Process\Exception\ProcessFailedException;

$process = new Process('phpunit');
$process->run();

// executes after the command finishes
if (!$process->isSuccessful()) {
    throw new ProcessFailedException($process);
}

echo $process->getOutput();

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 11 '18 at 18:22

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You can just use shell_exec() or exec():

shell_exec('/path/to/phpunit/ /path/to/tests')

answered Feb 11 '18 at 18:22

Alexey Mezenin

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but how do i call the exec from Artisan? which was the real question – Shobi Feb 11 '18 at 18:24
@ShobiPP this will work from anywhere, why don't you want to use it in Artisan command? – Alexey Mezenin Feb 11 '18 at 18:24

How to trigger unit testing from Laravel Artisan

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