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webysther/composer-meta-qa
==========================

Metapackage for PHP QA Tools.

1.0.4(9y ago)27.6k3MIT

Since Jul 30Pushed 5y ago1 watchersCompare

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NOT MAINTANED ANYMORE
=====================

[](#not-maintaned-anymore)

The development of `composer-plugin-qa` was dropped in favor of [phpqa](https://github.com/jakzal/phpqa) which is actively maintained. The project use docker and can less tightly coupled solution. :)

PHP Quality Assurance Tools
---------------------------

[](#php-quality-assurance-tools)

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This is a composer meta package for installing PHP Quality Assurance Tools with only one dependency, based on [h4cc/phpqatools](https://github.com/h4cc/phpqatools).

Included in this package (based on [phpqatools](http://phpqatools.org/)) are:

- [PHPUnit](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit): Testing Framework
- [PHPCOV](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpcov): CLI frontend for the [PHP\_CodeCoverage](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/php-code-coverage)
- [Paratest](https://github.com/brianium/paratest): Parallel testing for PHPUnit
- [DbUnit](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/dbunit): Puts your database into a known state between test runs
- [PHPLOC](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phploc): A tool for quickly measuring the size of a PHP project
- [PHPCPD](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpcpd): Copy/Paste Detector
- [PHP\_Depend](https://github.com/pdepend/pdepend): Quality of your design in the terms of extensibility, reusability and maintainability
- [PHPMD](https://github.com/phpmd/phpmd): User friendly frontend application for the raw metrics stream measured by PHP Depend
- [PhpMetrics](https://github.com/phpmetrics/PhpMetrics): Static analysis tool, gives metrics about PHP project and classes
- [PHP\_CodeSniffer](https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer): Detects violations of a defined set of coding standards

Plus:

- [PHP-CS-Fixer](https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/PHP-CS-Fixer): A tool to automatically fix coding standards issues
- [Security-Checker](https://github.com/sensiolabs/security-checker): Checks if your application uses dependencies with known security vulnerabilities
- [Behat](https://github.com/Behat/Behat): BDD (Behavior Driven Development) framework
- [Mockery](https://github.com/padraic/mockery): Simple yet flexible PHP mock object framework
- [Faker](https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker): Generates fake data for you

Suggest install:

- [Prestissimo](https://github.com/hirak/prestissimo): Composer parallel install plugin

Usage
=====

[](#usage)

The installed tools are available in vendor/bin/ and can be started like this:

```
php vendor/bin/phpmd
```

Installation
============

[](#installation)

To use this package, add it as as "dev" dependency with this command:

```
composer require webysther/composer-meta-qa --dev
```

Or modify your composer.json as followed:

```
require-dev: {
  "webysther/composer-meta-qa": "@stable"
}
```

###  Health Score

33

—

LowBetter than 72% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity21

Limited adoption so far

Community12

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity67

Established project with proven stability

 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 ~32 days

Total

5

Last Release

3493d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6a508e4c846549c2b55bf4f5ceb2d762ce6365c5ada4f94d21921e19b8b4af89?d=identicon)[Webysther](/maintainers/Webysther)

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Top Contributors

[![webysther](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/750007?v=4)](https://github.com/webysther "webysther (27 commits)")

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Tags

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