PHPUnit: How to run tests from browser? - zend-framework

Question

I know PHPUnit tests can be executed from the command line, but is there an easy way to run it from the browser. For example, I have:
class testsSuite extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestSuite
{
public function __construct ()
{
$this->setName('testsSuite');
$this->addTestSuite('MyFirstTest');
}
public static function suite ()
{
return new self();
}
}
And then I have:
class MyFirstTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
protected function setUp ()
{
parent::setUp();
}
protected function tearDown ()
{
parent::tearDown();
}
public function __construct ()
{
}
public function test__construct ()
{
}
public function test__destruct () {
}
public function testCalculateCost ()
{
print 1; die();
}
}
Is there a URL I can enter in my browser to execute this test? Something like:
http://localhost/tests/testsSuite/calculateCost
Or something similar

Answer 1

There is VisualPHPUnit.
At work we sometimes run from browser, using in its basic form a php-script containing:
$argv = array(
'--configuration', 'phpunit.xml',
'./unit',
);
$_SERVER['argv'] = $argv;
PHPUnit_TextUI_Command::main(false);
So you basically put all parameters you normally type on the commandline in an array, and set it in the $_SERVER-global. PHPUnit_TextUI_Cmmand::main(false); then runs your tests. The false-parameter makes sure no exit() is called.
In the PHPUnit.xml I configure to log to a JSON file, and the php-script reads that file to show the results (which it can do after the tests because no exit was called).
Note: this is very barebone, simplistic and crude.

Answer 2

I have found a solution that works well:
<?php
define("PHPUNIT_COMPOSER_INSTALL","vendor/autoload.php");
require PHPUNIT_COMPOSER_INSTALL;
$query = $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"];
//$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"] to $_SERVER['argv'];
$_SERVER['argv'] = explode("&",$query);
//PHPUnit use $_SERVER['argv'] for input value
PHPUnit\TextUI\Command::main(false);
/*Use
command line "./vendor/bin/phpunit param1 param2 param..."
browser URI "localhost?param1&param2&param..."
*/