phpunit command doesn't work for laravel 4 on windows 7

Question

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

Answer 1

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

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

2. On the second window click Advanced system settings

3. On the next window under Advanced click Environmental Variables

4. 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

5. Finally click Ok on all the dialog boxes

Answer 2

alias phpunit="vendor/bin/phpunit"

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

I added this command in command line instead of just "phpunit"

vendor\bin\phpunit

That worked for me.

Answer 5

Install phpunit globally:

composer global require phpunit/phpunit

Afterwards you will be able to run phpunit ( even on Windows ):

phpunit

Answer 6

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