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
– Rahil Wazir, Commented Jun 21, 2014 at 19:51
no it wasn't , so you mean I should add the phpunit executable to PATH yeah? — Ramin Omrani
– Ramin Omrani, Commented Jun 21, 2014 at 19:53

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:46:18Z

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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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Michael A · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-22 02:24:40Z

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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.

answered Jan 22, 2015 at 2:24

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Emeka Mbah · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-28 08:18:20Z

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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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Sajidur Rahman Over a year ago

Thanks for detailed explanation. Solves my problem.

RektByAyyLMAO · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-30 16:04:18Z

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alias phpunit="vendor/bin/phpunit"

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Blue Over a year ago

While this code snippet may solve the question, including an explanation really helps to improve the quality of your post. Remember that you are answering the question for readers in the future, and those people might not know the reasons for your code suggestion. Please also try not to crowd your code with explanatory comments, as this reduces the readability of both the code and the explanations!

vimuth · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-15 05:53:30Z

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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, 2018 at 17:22

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vimuth Over a year ago

I explained a bit more :)

Arno van Oordt Over a year ago

Or you can add ./vendor/bin to the PATH environment variable. This way you can just call phpunit from any Laravel root folder.

Crazy World Over a year ago

@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.

Iter Ator · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-09 14:23:33Z

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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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Unnawut · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-21 19:50:23Z

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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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Unnawut Over a year ago

composer update and after that do vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit from the folder you have phpunit.xml

Unnawut Over a year ago

Oh well I guess that's as far as I could help. Good luck!

Gustavo Marquez · Accepted Answer · 2020-10-23 22:31:20Z

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This working for me

In double quotes this command in console windows

"vendor/bin/phpunit"

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-20 09:12:55Z

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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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davidceranic · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-19 12:32:33Z

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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 :)

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Mark Walet Over a year ago

It wasn't saying that. The error message was something else

AQuirky · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-02 22:29:09Z

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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

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