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)
Prophecy
Highly opinionated mocking framework for PHP 5.3+ (by phpspec)
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| Mockery | Prophecy | |
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| 3 | 2 | |
| 10,557 | 8,530 | |
| 0.1% | -0.0% | |
| 9.5 | 6.5 | |
| about 1 month ago | 24 days ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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.
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Continuous Integration - Testify, sqlmock, Mockery, Github Actions
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Test doubles
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.
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Testing with immutable PSR-7 objects and Prophecy
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():
Prophecy
Posts with mentions or reviews of Prophecy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-18.
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Test doubles
Prophecy is a framework for creating test doubles that was initially built for the requirements of phpspec, but it can be used with any other PHP testing framework. Since PHPUnit 4.5 it bundles Prophecy within PHPUnit itself, but as of PHPUnit 9.x this bundling is deprecated and set to be removed in PHPUnit 10.
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Testing with immutable PSR-7 objects and Prophecy
Recently I have been working a lot with PSR-15 and PSR-18 and one of the characteristics of these recommendations is that it uses the immutable objects specified in PSR-7. Soon after we introduced PSR-18 in our codebase a colleague implemented a client including a unit test that was passing. And yet the code was failing when run in the browser. The cause of this was that the fact that RequestInterface objects are immutable by specification was overlooked. Due to the use of Prophecy and prophesized objects we were struggling to properly test it. Until another colleague introduced me to Argument::that() that is.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Mockery and Prophecy you can also consider the following projects:
PHPUnit - The PHP Unit Testing framework.
Codeception - Full-stack testing PHP framework
Faker
AspectMock - The most powerful and flexible mocking framework for PHPUnit / Codeception.
Phake - PHP Mocking Framework
Behat - BDD in PHP
PHP-Mock: mocking built-in PHP functions - Mock built-in PHP functions (e.g. time(), exec() or rand())