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cyberpearuk/phpunit-skelgen
===========================

Tool that can generate skeleton test classes from production code classes and vice versa

3.0.0(6y ago)094BSD-3-ClausePHPPHP >=7.1

Since May 12Pushed 5y agoCompare

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PHPUnit 8 Skeleton Generator
============================

[](#phpunit-8-skeleton-generator)

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`phpunit-skelgen` is a tool that can generate skeleton test classes from production code classes and vice versa.

This is a fork of the original [`sebastianbergmann/phpunit-skeleton-generator`](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit-skeleton-generator)which was abondoned at ~v4 of PHPUnit, to provide support for PHPUnit 8 and PHP7.1.

This fork is maintained by [www.cyberpear.co.uk](https://www.cyberpear.co.uk).

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

### Composer

[](#composer)

Simply add a development dependency on `cyberpearuk/phpunit-skelgen` to your project using [Composer](http://getcomposer.org/):

```
    composer require --dev "cyberpearuk/phpunit-skelgen=*"
```

For a system-wide installation via Composer, you can run:

```
    composer global require "cyberpearuk/phpunit-skelgen=*"
```

Make sure you have `~/.composer/vendor/bin/` in your path.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### CLI

[](#cli)

`./vendor/bin/phpunit-skelgen --ansi generate-test    `

```
./vendor/bin/phpunit-skelgen --ansi generate-test "My\Namespace" "path/to/src/class" "My\Namespace\ClassNameTest" "/path/to/tests/class"
```

### Assertion Annotations

[](#assertion-annotations)

`phpunit-skelgen` will generate a test case for each assertion defined in the methods doc comment. For example the below will generate 4 test cases:

```
    /**
     * @assert (0, 0) == 0
     * @assert (0, 1) == 1
     * @assert (1, 0) == 1
     * @assert (1, 1) == 2
     */
    public function add($a, $b) {
        return $a + $b;
    }
```

Maintainer
----------

[](#maintainer)

This repository is maintained by [Black Pear Digital](https://www.blackpeardigital.co.uk).

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity9

Limited adoption so far

Community12

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 50.9% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~939 days

Total

3

Last Release

2502d ago

Major Versions

2.0.1 → 3.0.02019-07-03

PHP version history (2 changes)2.0.0PHP >=5.3.3

3.0.0PHP >=7.1

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

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###  Code Quality

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