How to output in CLI during execution of PHP Unit tests?

Question

When running a PHPUnit test, I would like to be able to dump output so I can debug one or two things.

I have tried the following (similar to the PHPUnit Manual examp

Answer 1

Hackish, but works: Throw an exception with the debug output as its message.

class theTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    public function testOutput() {
        throw new \Exception("hello");
    }   
}

Yields:

...
There was 1 error:

1) theTest::testOutput
Exception: hello