PHPSpec vs Prophecy

PHPSpec

SpecBDD Framework for PHP (by phpspec)

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Prophecy

Highly opinionated mocking framework for PHP 5.3+ (by phpspec)

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PHPSpec		Prophecy
	Project
1	Mentions	2
1,867	Stars	8,534
0.1%	Growth	0.1%
7.6	Activity	6.5
2 months ago	Latest Commit	9 days ago
PHP	Language	PHP
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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PHPSpec

Posts with mentions or reviews of PHPSpec. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Atoum or PHPUnit
1 project | /r/PHP | 28 Apr 2022

I like phpspec.

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.

Test doubles
3 projects | dev.to | 18 Mar 2021

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.
Testing with immutable PSR-7 objects and Prophecy
3 projects | dev.to | 4 Mar 2021

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 PHPSpec and Prophecy you can also consider the following projects:

PHPUnit - The PHP Unit Testing framework.

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).

Codeception - Full-stack testing PHP framework

Behat - BDD in PHP

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

Phake - PHP Mocking Framework

Atoum - The modern, simple and intuitive PHP unit testing framework.

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

Peridot - Event driven BDD test framework for PHP