PHPUnit 10: Why It’s Delayed, What It Brings | Sebastian Bergmann

Discover the exciting updates and features in PHPUnit 10, including a new event system for improved test handling, debugging, and support for PHP 7.2+, union types, and more.

Key takeaways

Events in PHPUnit 10 will provide a cleaner and more robust way to handle metadata in code units, replacing comments.
PHPUnit 10 will not be supporting older PHP versions, focusing on PHP 7.2 and above.
The event system will make it easier for extension developers to create wrappers around PHPUnit and make more of it do more complex things.
The transition from PHPUnit 9 to PHPUnit 10 will involve migrating annotations to attributes.
PHPUnit 8’s introduction of enumerations and union types will be built upon in PHPUnit 10.
The event system will allow for real-time testing and more efficient testing.
The PHPUnit configuration will be cleaner and more organized.
The event system will enable better test coverage and faster test runs.
PHPUnit 10 will provide a more scalable solution for testing and will make it easier to support older PHP versions using the same PHPUnit version.
The event system will provide a way to handle exceptions and failures in tests.
The event system will make it easier to implement code coverage and report failures and errors.
The event system will be used to transport events from child processes back to the parent process.
The event system will enable better debugging and debugging tools.
The transition from PHPUnit 9 to PHPUnit 10 will involve cleaning up old code and making it more modern and maintainable.
PHPUnit 10 will provide better support for PHP 8 features such as union types, interfaces, and final classes.
The event system will provide a way to handle test doubles, mocking, and stubbing.
The event system will make it easier to test complex scenarios.
PHPUnit 8’s changes to PHP’s superglobal variables will be further developed in PHPUnit 10.

PHPUnit 10: Why It’s Delayed, What It Brings | Sebastian Bergmann

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