testing

For a long time, it has seemed that when it comes to unit testing in PHP, there is only one game in town: PHPUnit. And in all fairness, it's popularity is justified. It is a good framework, and can generally handle standard use cases.

But recently I found Atoum. Not being one to start small, I began using it on a large (soon to be Open Source) project that I was writing from scratch.

Was it love or infatuation?

Atoum has some great out-of-the-box features:

• Support for PHP namespaces.
• Each test can be run directly.
• The CLI output is clean and intuitive.
• I love the method chaining support.