Laravel 5: PHPUnit and no code coverage driver available

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.

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

Update for anyone else stuck;

pecl install xdebug

For windows users:

1. Download xdebug

2. Rename the file to php_xdebug.dll and copy the file to the ext folder in your php installation e.g C:\Program Files (x86)\php\ext

3. Open your php.ini file. For me it’s available at C:\Program Files (x86)\php\php.ini.

4. Paste the below code at the bottom of the file.

   zend_extension = php_xdebug.dll xdebug.remote_enable = 1 xdebug.remote_handler = dbgp xdebug.remote_host = localhost xdebug.remote_autostart = 1 xdebug.remote_port = 9000 xdebug.show_local_vars = 1

Update for PHP 7.1

xdebug is essential for code lookup and coverage , so xdebug is must to be installed or enabled in test environment. xdebug in production environment is not suggestible, it will affect performance if you turned on

brew install php71-xdebug

As other developers answered, you need to install PHP Xdebug but I want to add new recommend for the developers who are using homestead by default have Xdebug (but it is off) and you can make it ON or OFF

If you want to make it on use below command in homestead

#for on :
xon

#for off:
xoff

Then check php -v and you will see Xdebug in the detail box

If you run phpunit inside a vagrant box then you don't need to install xdebug in local and homestead comes with xdebug install automatically. only needs to link homestead xdebug.ini file

Here is the step that worked for me:

cd ~/homestead/REPLACE THIS WITH YOUR HOMESTEAD FOLDER IN LOCAL //
vagrant ssh

sudo ln -s /etc/php/7.2/fpm/conf.d/20-xdebug.ini /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/

In the above command if your running 7.3 or 7.1 then replace it based on your php version

it's worked for me. follow this step :

1.) install php7.x-dev, (x) is PHP version on your Linux server

sudo apt-get install php7.x-dev

2.) install Xdebug through PECL on Linux

sudo pecl install xdebug

3.) add the following php.ini file. (you can insert it on last line)

zend_extension="/wherever/you/put/it/xdebug.so"

> To Reproduce, kindly follow the solution(s) below;

1. Steps to reproduce the behavior if you don't have Xdebug activated already:

• Inside your project root directory open your CMD terminal and type php -i
• A list of important information concerning your php will be listed in the CMD terminal
• Copy and paste the output here https://xdebug.org/wizard
• After you paste the output, click on the button Analyse my phpinfo() output to proceed
• Follow the instructions to the latter after your redirect to the Summary page
• After you are done with the installation, type php -v to confirm that Xdebug is activated successfully.

2. If you already have Xdebug activated, follow these steps get test coverage running;

• Type ./vendor/bin/phpunit --coverage-html tests/coverage into the CMD terminal to generate the test coverage
• After it is done with running the tests successfully, the coverage report of the tests will be in the project_dir/tests/coverage directory
• Inside the project_dir/tests/coverage directory, click on the index.html file to open and view the general report of the project's phpunit test coverage

> NB: I worked in Laravel ^6.0
Tested in Windows 10 environment but can be replicated in other environments

I am having PHP 7.1.33, Centos 7, PHPUnit 5.7.27 and this works for me

$ yum install gcc
$ pecl install xdebug-2.9.0
Build process completed successfully
Installing '/usr/lib64/php/modules/xdebug.so'
install ok: channel://pecl.php.net/xdebug-2.9.0
configuration option "php_ini" is not set to php.ini location
You should add "zend_extension=/usr/lib64/php/modules/xdebug.so" to php.ini

Proceeding after that Find position of php.ini file

$ php -i | grep 'Configuration File'
Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /etc
Loaded Configuration File => /etc/php.ini

Add Xdebug config

$ vi /etc/php.ini

Add this at the end

zend_extension=/usr/lib64/php/modules/xdebug.so

Check if Xdebug is installed

$ php -ini|grep 'xdebug support'
xdebug support => enabled