Testing in PHP development

For the PHP developers among us who test their code using PHPUnit, Sublime has an awesome plugin to support PHPUnit known as sublime-phpunit, written by Stuart Herbert and located at http://github.com/stuartherbert/sublime-phpunit.

Knowing about PHPUnit

If you are a PHP developer and do not know what PHPUnit is, you should learn that PHPUnit is "the standard" for unit testing in PHP projects. It combines a framework that lets us easily write and run tests with the facility to analyze the results.

We can learn more about PHPUnit at https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/ or check the full manual at http://phpunit.de/manual/current/en/index.html.

Using PHPUnit plugin for Sublime

Before using this plugin, we must have PHPUnit installed and functional in our project and know how to use it, a topic which is not covered here. We'll then need to download and install the PHPUnit plugin using Package Control. Let's open up the command palette by pressing Ctrl + Shift ...