robiningelbrecht/phpunit-pretty-print

Prettify PHPUnit output

Maintainers

👁 robiningelbrecht

Package info

github.com/robiningelbrecht/phpunit-pretty-print

pkg:composer/robiningelbrecht/phpunit-pretty-print

Statistics

Installs: 557 712

Dependents: 20

Suggesters: 0

Stars: 77

Open Issues: 1

v1.5.0 2026-03-26 14:00 UTC

Requires

Suggests

None

Provides

None

Conflicts

None

Replaces

None

MIT 347976a2b23b9109ff6649cd175f6e9434a796b3

  • Robin Ingelbrecht <ingelbrecht_robin.woop@hotmail.com>

phptestingphpunit

This package is auto-updated.

Last update: 2026-06-26 14:32:22 UTC


README

👁 PHPUnit

👁 CI
👁 License
👁 Image
👁 PHPStan Enabled
👁 PHP
👁 PHPUnit
👁 PHPUnit

I really like how Pest PHP formats and outputs test results, but I still prefer to use PHPUnit. Luckily there's Collision. This package is designed to give you beautiful error reporting when interacting with your app through the command line.

Installation

composer require robiningelbrecht/phpunit-pretty-print --dev

Configuration

Navigate to your phpunit.xml.dist file and add following config to set default options (you can also set these options at run time):

<extensions>
 <bootstrap class="RobinIngelbrecht\PHPUnitPrettyPrint\PhpUnitExtension">
 </bootstrap>
</extensions>

Also make sure the color attribute is set to true:

<phpunit 
 colors="true">
</phpunit>

Options

All these options can be set at runtime as well, see usage.

Output profiling report

<extensions>
 <bootstrap class="RobinIngelbrecht\PHPUnitPrettyPrint\PhpUnitExtension">
 <parameter name="displayProfiling" value="true"/>
 </bootstrap>
</extensions>

Enable compact mode

<extensions>
 <bootstrap class="RobinIngelbrecht\PHPUnitPrettyPrint\PhpUnitExtension">
 <parameter name="useCompactMode" value="true"/>
 </bootstrap>
</extensions>

Feel good about yourself after running your testsuite by displaying a Chuck Noris quote

<extensions>
 <bootstrap class="RobinIngelbrecht\PHPUnitPrettyPrint\PhpUnitExtension">
 <parameter name="displayQuote" value="true"/>
 </bootstrap>
</extensions>

Disable pretty print.

This can be useful when you only want to prettify the output when forced via CLI (see usage).

<extensions>
 <bootstrap class="RobinIngelbrecht\PHPUnitPrettyPrint\PhpUnitExtension">
 <parameter name="enableByDefault" value="false"/>
 </bootstrap>
</extensions>

Usage

> vendor/bin/phpunit

👁 Example default

Output profiling report

> vendor/bin/phpunit -d --profiling

👁 Example profiling

Enable compact mode

> vendor/bin/phpunit -d --compact

👁 Example compact

Display Chuck Norris quote

> vendor/bin/phpunit -d --display-quote

👁 Example quote

Enable/disable pretty print

> vendor/bin/phpunit -d --enable-pretty-print
> vendor/bin/phpunit -d --disable-pretty-print

Combine multiple options

> vendor/bin/phpunit --configuration=tests/phpunit.test.xml -d --compact -d --display-quote

PHPUnit 9.x

This package does not support PHPUnit 9.x but Collision does out of the box. Run

composer require nunomaduro/collision:^6.0

Then add the Collision printerClass to your phpunit.xml in the phpunit section:

<phpunit
 printerClass="NunoMaduro\Collision\Adapters\Phpunit\Printer">

Acknowledgements