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Matthieu Napoli
Matthieu Napoli

Reputation: 49533

PHPUnit : Fatal error handling

I use PHPUnit for unit tests, but when a fatal error is triggered, the script dies and I have no correct PHPUnit output.

I'd like that the PHPUnit output stays correctly formated, because it is read by a plugin for Eclipse. Actually the fatal error stops PHPUnit and in Eclipse the plugin can't interpret anything (because the PHPUnit script had an error, instead of handling it).

Thanks

Upvotes: 23

Views: 9629

Answers (2)

cweiske
cweiske

Reputation: 31078

You need to use PHPUnit's process isolation features - start each test suite in a new process.

phpunit --process-isolation ...

This is the only way to make sure fatal errors don't break your phpunit output.

Execution time

Process isolation multiplies your test run time, because for each single test, a new PHP instance is started, the bootstrap is executed etc.

To amend this situation, you may choose to run full test cases in a separate process (@runTestsInSeparateProcesses), or only single ones that are known to fatal out sometimes (@runInSeparateProcess).

Upvotes: 30

bcosca
bcosca

Reputation: 17555

set_error_handler() won't help you there. You can catch fatal errors using register_shutdown_function()

Upvotes: 2

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