# PHPUnit

PHPUnit is a programmer-oriented testing framework for PHP. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks.

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## Installation

We distribute a [PHP Archive (PHAR)](http://php.net/phar) that has all required (as well as some optional) dependencies of PHPUnit bundled in a single file:

    wget https://phar.phpunit.de/phpunit.phar
    chmod +x phpunit.phar
    mv phpunit.phar /usr/local/bin/phpunit

You can also immediately use the PHAR after you have downloaded it, of course:

    wget https://phar.phpunit.de/phpunit.phar
    php phpunit.phar

Alternatively, you may use [Composer](http://getcomposer.org/) to download and install PHPUnit as well as its dependencies. Please refer to the [documentation](http://phpunit.de/documentation.html) for details on how to do this.

## Contribute

Please refer to [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for information on how to contribute to PHPUnit and its related projects.

The development of PHPUnit is discussed on the [dev@phpunit.de](mailto:dev-subscribe@phpunit.de) mailing list as well as on the [#phpunit channel on the Freenode IRC network](irc://irc.freenode.net/phpunit).

## List of Contributors

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to PHPUnit! You can find a detailed list of contributors on every PHPUnit related package on GitHub. This list shows only the major components:

* [PHPUnit](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/graphs/contributors)
* [PHP_CodeCoverage](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/php-code-coverage/graphs/contributors)
* [PHPUnit_MockObject](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit-mock-objects/graphs/contributors)

A very special thanks to everyone who has contributed to the documentation and helps maintaining the translations:

* [PHPUnit Documentation](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit-documentation/graphs/contributors)

