How to run multiple PHPUnit test suites from command line?

Question

If you have multiple test suites configured in phpunit.xml how do you run more than one test suite but not all of them from the command line?

phpunit.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<phpunit
    backupGlobals="false"
    backupStaticAttributes="false"
    colors="true"
    convertErrorsToExceptions="true"
    convertNoticesToExceptions="true"
    convertWarningsToExceptions="true"
    processIsolation="false"
    stopOnFailure="true"
    syntaxCheck="true"
    bootstrap="tests/bootstrap.php">
        <testsuites>
            <testsuite name="Unit">
                <directory suffix="Test.php">tests/unit</directory>
            </testsuite>
            <testsuite name="Integration">
                <directory suffix="Test.php">tests/integration</directory>
            </testsuite>
            <testsuite name="Acceptance">
                <directory suffix="Test.php">tests/acceptance</directory>
            </testsuite>
        </testsuites>
        <logging>
            <log type="coverage-html" target="build/coverage"/>
            <log type="testdox-html" target="build/requirements.html"/>
        </logging>
        <filter>
            <whitelist>
                <directory suffix=".php">src</directory>
            </whitelist>
        </filter>
</phpunit>

example

phpunit --testsuite Unit|Integration but not Acceptance

Answer 1

Since PHPUnit 6.0 you can specify a comma delimited list of suites:

--testsuite suite1,suite2

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Original answer for versions < PHPUnit 6.0

It doesn't work as you expect it to i.e. (where <pattern> is not an actual pattern):

--testsuite <pattern> Filter which testsuite to run.

You can choose a test suite to run but you can't use a pattern to filter which ones to run.

A better description would be --testsuite <name> Which testsuite to run.

Issue report https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/issues/2273, which was fixed in version 6.0.