Laravel 5: PHPUnit and no code coverage driver available

Question

I would like to use PHPUnit to create code coverage reports. I have tried a lot of installation setups found on the web. But nothing seems to work out.

I use the latest version of Laravel 5 (>5.2) and PHPUnit v. 5.0.10. Further, I use MAMP on Mac OS X 10.9.5 running PHP 7.

When I run PHPUnit that is integrated in my Laravel distribution, I receive the following error.

$ vendor/bin/phpunit -v PHPUnit 5.0.10 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.  Runtime:       PHP 7.0.0 Configuration: /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/myProject/phpunit.xml Error:         No code coverage driver is available` 

My composer file looks like:

"require-dev": {     "fzaninotto/faker": "~1.4",     "mockery/mockery": "0.9.*",     "phpunit/phpunit": "5.0.*",     "phpunit/php-code-coverage": "^3",     "symfony/css-selector": "2.8.*|3.0.*",     "symfony/dom-crawler": "2.8.*|3.0.*" }, 

I have also tried the following command:

/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.0.0/bin/phpdbg -qrr ../../../htdocs/myProject/vendor/bin/phpunit -v 

This seems to set up the code coverage driver well, but it ends up in an exception:

$ /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.0.0/bin/phpdbg -qrr ../../../htdocs/myProject/vendor/bin/phpunit -v PHPUnit 5.0.10 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.  Runtime:       PHPDBG 7.0.0 Configuration: /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/myProject/phpunit.xml  [PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught ErrorException: include(/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/myProject/app/Exceptions/Handler.php): failed to open stream: Too many open files in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/myProject/vendor/composer/ClassLoader.php:412 Stack trace: ... 

The phpunit.xml looks as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <phpunit backupGlobals="false"      backupStaticAttributes="false"      bootstrap="bootstrap/autoload.php"      colors="true"      convertErrorsToExceptions="true"      convertNoticesToExceptions="true"      convertWarningsToExceptions="true"      processIsolation="false"      stopOnFailure="false">     <testsuites>         <testsuite name="Application Test Suite">             <directory>./tests/</directory>         </testsuite>     </testsuites>     <logging>       <log type="coverage-html" target="./tests/codeCoverage" charset="UTF-8"/>     </logging>     <filter>         <whitelist>             <directory suffix=".php">app/</directory>         </whitelist>     </filter>     <php>         <env name="APP_ENV" value="testing"/>         <env name="CACHE_DRIVER" value="array"/>         <env name="SESSION_DRIVER" value="array"/>         <env name="QUEUE_DRIVER" value="sync"/>     </php> </phpunit> 

Is it possible to use PHPUnit that comes with the Laravel framework together with code coverage? How should I set it up and use it?

Thanks a lot for your help.

Answer 1

It seems like you are missing the Xdebug extension. If you're using homebrew you can install it like:

brew install php70-xdebug 

After that, don't forget to edit your php.ini file to enable the extension.

php -i | grep xdebug 

After checking that xdebug is enabled you should be able to do code coverage

Answer 2

Update for anyone else stuck;

pecl install xdebug