PCOV vs PHP-Parallel-Lint

PCOV

PCOV - CodeCoverage compatible driver for PHP (by krakjoe)

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PHP-Parallel-Lint

This tool check syntax of PHP files faster than serial check with fancier output. (by php-parallel-lint)

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PCOV		PHP-Parallel-Lint
	Project
4	Mentions	2
679	Stars	270
-	Growth	1.1%
0.0	Activity	2.4
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
C	Language	PHP
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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PCOV

Posts with mentions or reviews of PCOV. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-07.

Swoole, E2E testovi i code coverage
2 projects | /r/programiranje | 7 Jan 2023
How To Generate PHPUnit Coverage Report In HTML and XML?
2 projects | dev.to | 17 Mar 2021

Though additional modifications are recommended in the official link of PCOV, we commented on those entries in php.ini, as we witnessed issues when using php-code-coverage with PCOV.
A nice PHP CI pipeline
7 projects | /r/PHP | 23 Feb 2021

https://github.com/krakjoe/pcov but only via workflow_dispatch, it takes too long to run regularly
How to make PHPUnit Code Coverage 2+ times faster with Pcov compared to Xdebug
9 projects | dev.to | 5 Jan 2021

XDebug is a debugger that can do coverage too. PHPdbg is another alternative to Xdebug. Pcov is built for PHPUnit code coverage, not something else.

PHP-Parallel-Lint

Posts with mentions or reviews of PHP-Parallel-Lint. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-11.

Automating code quality check using GrumPHP in Magento 2
9 projects | dev.to | 11 Apr 2021

#### PHPLint
A nice PHP CI pipeline
7 projects | /r/PHP | 23 Feb 2021

using https://github.com/php-parallel-lint/PHP-Parallel-Lint instead of php -l ; does parallel checking out of the box

What are some alternatives?

When comparing PCOV and PHP-Parallel-Lint you can also consider the following projects:

PHPStan - PHP Static Analysis Tool - discover bugs in your code without running it!

PHP CS Fixer - A tool to automatically fix PHP Coding Standards issues

PHP Code Sniffer - PHP_CodeSniffer tokenizes PHP files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards.

PHPSpy - low-overhead sampling profiler for PHP 7+

pcov-clobber - Run PCOV in versions of PHPUnit before 8, if you must ...

GrumPHP - A PHP code-quality tool

PHP Mess Detector - PHPMD is a spin-off project of PHP Depend and aims to be a PHP equivalent of the well known Java tool PMD. PHPMD can be seen as an user friendly frontend application for the raw metrics stream measured by PHP Depend.

Laravel - The Laravel Framework.

magento2-grumphp - Ultimate GrumPHP configuration for Magento 2 automated code quality checks

Packagist - Package Repository Website - try https://packagist.com if you need your own -

PHPUnit - The PHP Unit Testing framework.