ANSI Colors in PHPUnit Output

Sebastian Bergmann » 17 March 2008 » in New Features » 6 Comments

I finally gave in and implemented (optional) ANSI colors in PHPUnit's test runner output:
Green Bar: Test Success

Red Bar: Test Failure
This is a new feature in PHPUnit 3.3.
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  1. gasper_k
    17/03/2008 at 20:46 Permalink
    Nice feature, far from being unimportant or useless, as some may think (it's just colors after all). I got lost many times in the monochrome output when multiple tests failed, so this will prove useful.

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  2. Doug Hill
    18/03/2008 at 01:05 Permalink
    I like it as gasper_k said it helps sort through output.

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  3. Daniel O'Connor
    18/03/2008 at 01:07 Permalink
    Hurray!

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  4. Max Horvath
    19/03/2008 at 08:33 Permalink
    I knew this feature would be cute :)

    See http://www.maxhorvath.com/2008/03/phpunits-terminal-output-could-be-more-fancy.html and http://www.maxhorvath.com/2008/03/phpunits-terminal-output-is-more-fancy.html ...

    Thanks and cheers!

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  5. Grant Palin
    19/03/2008 at 18:17 Permalink
    Nice one! I've got to upgrade my local instance now!

    I've been learning PHPUnit recently, and I am certain this little addition will increase the usability of the software when running it from the commandline.

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  6. Yaroslav
    29/05/2010 at 16:49 Permalink
    I'm tried on windows and it does not work :(

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  1. Blog of Max Horvath 19/03/2008 at 08:31
    Yes! Sebastian Bergmann did it: just one day after requesting a colorful output of PHPUnit's command line interface, he committed a patch to PHPUnit's trunk, which should be released with the next release.

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