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elliotchance/concise
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Concise is test framework for using plain English and minimal code, built on PHPUnit.

v2.1.3(7y ago)45223.8k3[71 issues](https://github.com/elliotchance/concise/issues)[1 PRs](https://github.com/elliotchance/concise/pulls)4MITPHPPHP >=5.3.9

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NOTE: concise is no longer maintained.
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Concise is unit test framework for using plain English and minimal code, built on PHPUnit.

Highlights include:

- 100% compatible with PHPUnit, no changes required. You may use as many features as you like.
- Much better mocking framework with a lot less typing.
- Huge array of assertions to save on boilerplate code.
- Assert and \[\[Verify|verify\]\] supported.

See the full documentation at [concise.readthedocs.org](http://concise.readthedocs.org/en/latest/).

###  Health Score

37

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LowBetter than 83% of packages

Maintenance0

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity42

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community19

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity71

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 99.4% 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 ~40 days

Recently: every ~219 days

Total

36

Last Release

2911d ago

Major Versions

v1.7.3 → v2.0.02015-09-29

PHP version history (2 changes)v1.0PHP >=5.3.0

v1.4.3PHP >=5.3.9

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/86140?v=4)[Chao](/maintainers/chancey)[@chancey](https://github.com/chancey)

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Top Contributors

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Tags

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