Prophecy VS Codeception

Compare Prophecy vs Codeception and see what are their differences.

Prophecy

Highly opinionated mocking framework for PHP 5.3+ (by phpspec)
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Prophecy Codeception
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8,528 4,739
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6.5 7.6
1 day ago 8 days ago
PHP PHP
MIT License MIT License
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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.

Codeception

Posts with mentions or reviews of Codeception. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-27.
  • Any good resources on how to do “interaction” tests?
    6 projects | /r/PHP | 27 May 2023
  • Any pro-tips for writing automated tests with Selenium PHP?
    3 projects | /r/PHP | 2 May 2023
    Personal experience: - don’t use Behat unless you really needed a “story telling”, it has a intermediate layer Gherkin that you’ll need to code. You can write “Given/When/Then” steps but you’ll also need to write “php code” that will interpret this step. - using real browser be prepared for instability - any interaction with JavaScript can broken/delay execution - be prepared that this tests are call functional they are the most expensive test, so start small unit then integration and only then functional. - use https://github.com/symfony/panther or https://codeception.com/ you’ll have phpunit alike interface to run them. - you’ll need to reset state of your database each time to provide “isolation” and stability
  • PHPUnit, do i need to learn it?
    5 projects | /r/PHP | 6 Jan 2023
    Codeception: https://codeception.com/
  • Automating Tests using CodeceptJS and Testomat.io: First Steps
    8 projects | dev.to | 6 Sep 2022
    There are enough blog posts about Jest or Cypress already, so let me introduce Codecept. It comes in two flavors. There is Codeception for PHP, and there is CodeceptJS for JavaScript which we will be using here.
  • Testing PHP Applications
    5 projects | dev.to | 5 Aug 2022
    There are many tools you can use for this purpose, but one I particularly like is CodeCeption. What I like most about it is that it's a unified tool that can be used to perform several types of tests, acceptance being one of them.
  • Symfony Station Communiqué - 04 March 2022. A Look at Symfony and PHP news!
    2 projects | dev.to | 4 Mar 2022
    And within the Symfony ecosystem Codeception, which “collects and shares best practices and solutions for testing PHP web applications. With a flexible set of included modules tests are easy to write, easy to use, and easy to maintain.”
  • Modern tools for PHP developers
    9 projects | dev.to | 24 Jan 2022
    Other tools worth mentioning include Codeception and behat. Both use phpUnit underneath, but have different approaches to writing tests.
  • Testing strategies
    2 projects | dev.to | 8 Sep 2021
    Codeception

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Prophecy and Codeception you can also consider the following projects:

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).

PHPUnit - The PHP Unit Testing framework.

Behat - BDD in PHP

Pest - Pest is an elegant PHP testing Framework with a focus on simplicity, meticulously designed to bring back the joy of testing in PHP.

PHPSpec - SpecBDD Framework for PHP

ParaTest - :computer: Parallel testing for PHPUnit

Faker

Mink - Mink documentation

Phake - PHP Mocking Framework

Alice - Expressive fixtures generator