Mockery VS PHP-Mock: mocking built-in PHP functions

Compare Mockery vs PHP-Mock: mocking built-in PHP functions and see what are their differences.

Mockery

Mockery is a simple yet flexible PHP mock object framework for use in unit testing with PHPUnit, PHPSpec or any other testing framework. Its core goal is to offer a test double framework with a succinct API capable of clearly defining all possible object operations and interactions using a human readable Domain Specific Language (DSL). (by mockery)

PHP-Mock: mocking built-in PHP functions

Mock built-in PHP functions (e.g. time(), exec() or rand()) (by php-mock)
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Mockery

Posts with mentions or reviews of Mockery. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-20.
  • I share my authentication server.
    18 projects | /r/golang | 20 Dec 2021
    Continuous Integration - Testify, sqlmock, Mockery, Github Actions
  • Test doubles
    3 projects | dev.to | 18 Mar 2021
    Mockery is another framework for creating test doubles. It can be used with PHPUnit, phpspec, Behat, or any other testing framework. I find it especially powerful when working with legacy code, due to its support for creating partial mocks or mocking hard dependencies.
  • Testing with immutable PSR-7 objects and Prophecy
    3 projects | dev.to | 4 Mar 2021
    This works great if a method is tested that modifies and returns an object; we'll get an instance of that object and we are able to run all sorts of assertions on it. But what if this is not the case. What if we have a situation where a value object is passed as a parameter, some modifications are done and the value object is passed to another object. Something like the middleware from the example earlier. Some testing frameworks like Mockery offer spies to test these situations. When using Prophecy this situation can be handled using Argument::that():

PHP-Mock: mocking built-in PHP functions

Posts with mentions or reviews of PHP-Mock: mocking built-in PHP functions. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-28.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Mockery and PHP-Mock: mocking built-in PHP functions you can also consider the following projects:

Prophecy - Highly opinionated mocking framework for PHP 5.3+

PHPUnit - The PHP Unit Testing framework.

Faker

AspectMock - The most powerful and flexible mocking framework for PHPUnit / Codeception.

Phake - PHP Mocking Framework

Codeception - Full-stack testing PHP framework

DBUnit

PHPT - The PHP Interpreter

Kahlan - :heavy_check_mark: PHP Test Framework for Freedom, Truth, and Justice