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dealnews/test-helpers
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A PHP library of traits for use in PHPUnit test cases.

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Test Helpers
============

[](#test-helpers)

A collection of traits that are useful when writing PHPUnit tests.

###  Health Score

40

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FairBetter than 88% of packages

Maintenance61

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity21

Limited adoption so far

Community15

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity53

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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 ~151 days

Total

4

Last Release

243d ago

Major Versions

0.9.0 → 1.0.12024-09-05

1.0.1 → 2.0.02025-09-17

PHP version history (2 changes)0.9.0PHP ^8.0

2.0.0PHP ^8.1

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/49531?v=4)[Brian Moon](/maintainers/brianlmoon)[@brianlmoon](https://github.com/brianlmoon)

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Top Contributors

[![brianlmoon](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/49531?v=4)](https://github.com/brianlmoon "brianlmoon (12 commits)")

###  Code Quality

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