Kahlan is a full-featured Unit & BDD test framework a la RSpec/JSpec which uses a describe-it syntax and moves testing in PHP one step forward.

Kahlan embraces the KISS principle and makes Unit & BDD testing fun again!

Killer feature: Kahlan allows to stub or monkey patch your code directly like in Ruby or JavaScript without any required PECL-extentions.

• Warren Seymour presentation at Unified Diff (2015)

chat.freenode.net (server) #kahlan (channel)

See the whole documentation here.

• PHP 5.5+
• Composer
• Xdebug (if you want to perform code coverage analysis)

• Simple API
• Fast Code Coverage metrics (xdebug required)
• Handy stubbing system (mockery or prophecy are no longer needed)
• Set stubs on your class methods directly (i.e allows dynamic mocking)
• Ability to Monkey Patch your code (i.e. allows replacement of core functions/classes on the fly)
• Check called methods on your class/instances
• Built-in Reporters/Exporters (Terminal, Coveralls, Code Climate, Scrutinizer, Clover)
• Extensible, customizable workflow
• Small code base (~10 times smaller than PHPUnit)

describe("Example", function() {

    it("passes if true === true", function() {

        expect(true)->toBe(true);

    });

    it("passes if false !== true", function() {

        expect(false)->not->toBe(true);

    });

});

$ composer require --dev crysalead/kahlan

Note: Kahlan uses the ferver versioning so a "~x.y" version constraint shouldn't ever BC-break.

git clone git@github.com:crysalead/kahlan.git
cd kahlan
composer install
bin/kahlan              # to run specs or,
bin/kahlan --coverage=4 # to run specs with coverage info for namespaces, classes & methods (require xdebug)