Generating code coverage report in Clover XML format ... syntax error, unexpected '-', expecting '{'

[lordisp]

Q	A
PHPUnit version	PHPUnit 9.5.5
PHP version	PHP 7.4.16
Installation Method	Composer

Summary

Current behavior

Generating code coverage report in HTML format ... syntax error, unexpected '-', expecting '{'

and

Generating code coverage report in Clover XML format ... syntax error, unexpected '-', expecting '{'

I've posted this issue also on stackoverflow

How to reproduce

.\vendor\bin\phpunit --coverage-html ./coverage.html

Expected behavior

getting a coverage report

[sebastianbergmann]

Thank you for your report.

Please provide a minimal, self-contained, reproducing test case that shows the problem you are reporting.

Without such a minimal, self-contained, reproducing test case I will not be able to investigate this issue.

[lordisp]

@sebastianbergmann , I believe the tests itself are irrelevant. I'm not sure where else I shall troubleshoot this issue. Here a minimal test:

class MinimalTest extends TestCase
{
    /**
     * A basic feature test example.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function test_example()
    {
        $response = $this->get('https://google.com');

        $response->assertStatus(200);
    }
}

Executed by ❯ .\vendor\bin\phpunit --filter MinimalTest --coverage-html ./coverage.html

Result:

❯ .\vendor\bin\phpunit --debug --filter MinimalTest --coverage-html ./coverage.html
PHPUnit 9.5.5 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.

Runtime:       PHP 7.4.16 with Xdebug 3.0.4
Configuration: C:\Users\rcamison\localGit\xampp\htdocs\oneup\app\phpunit.xml

Test 'Tests\Feature\MinimalTest::test_example' started
Test 'Tests\Feature\MinimalTest::test_example' ended


Time: 00:01.242, Memory: 42.00 MB

OK (1 test, 1 assertion)

Generating code coverage report in HTML format ... syntax error, unexpected '-', expecting '{'

[sebastianbergmann]

Where does $this->get() come from? In other words: this is not self-contained.

[lordisp]

@sebastianbergmann , guess I'm not sure how to deal with self-contained tests, since I'm new with unit testing but I found I had to exclude the app/View directory of Laravel for now. Then the coverage report can be generated. If you don't mind, I would close this and post my final findings out of the app/View files in case someone else hit the same issue.

Anyhow, thanks for your time!

[lordisp]

I finally found the issue. I isolated the root cause by excluding directories of Laravel. The bad directory was actually the app/View due too an early mistake I made by generating laravel components Laravel generates view and
controller files for a component. It's not always needed to touch the controller if you don't need php logic, which is why I did not see the issue.

I've created the components these times with a wrong pattern, which led Laravel to generate broken classes (my bad, not Laravel's). By cleaning those out, the coverage report was successfully generated without any exclusions.

[LocalHeroPro]

I have similar issue.
Test:

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace Tests\Unit;

use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;

class ExampleTest extends TestCase
{
    /**
     * A basic test example.
     */
    public function testBasicTest(): void
    {
        $this->assertTrue(true);
    }
}

output:

PHPUnit 9.6.0 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.



Time: 00:00.055, Memory: 12.00 MB

OK (1 test, 1 assertion)

Generating code coverage report in Clover XML format ... syntax error, unexpected token ")"

Process finished with exit code 2

Standard test working as expected.
Test with coverage 100% fails ;/

[XJensoX]

unfortunately have the same problem.
Runs in a Docker container with the images 'php:8.1.7-cli'.

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace Tests\Unit;

use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;

class ExampleTest extends TestCase
{
    /**
     * A basic test example.
     */
    public function testBasic(): void
    {
        $a = "Test";
        $this->assertIsString($a);
        $this->assertEquals("Test", $a);
    }
}

PHPUnit 10.0.14 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.

Runtime:       PHP 8.1.7 with Xdebug 3.2.0
Configuration: phpunit.xml

.                                                                   1 / 1 (100%)

Time: 00:02.076, Memory: 12.00 MB

Example (Tests\Unit\Example)
 ✔ Basic

OK (1 test, 2 assertions)

Generating code coverage report in Clover XML format ... failed [03:52.739]
Cannot parse /app/src/vendor/rector/rector/vendor/triun/longest-common-substring/src/Match.php: Syntax error, unexpected T_MATCH, expecting T_STRING on line 13

with the parameters --coverage-text, --coverage-html I get the same error

[LocalHeroPro]

In my case resolution was very simply and silly.

Run on ALL code some scanner: esc, phpstan, insights, rector or something similar. Then check some errors in your code.
In me case it was, for example

$variable = ;

Content of uncommited file - WIP.

Maybe in your case, you will find some similar?