How to make PHPUnit Code Coverage 2+ times faster with Pcov compared to Xdebug

• framework

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To keep things simple, I forked the Laravel/framework Github repo. After that, I change the Github Actions tests workflow to run tests only on PHP 7.4 which the current stable version. You can see the changes I made in this pull request.

• Laravel

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  The Laravel Framework.

  

I picked up the Laravel framework not only because it is very popular but also because there were a lot of tests, more than 5700 of them. On top of it, for the Laravel 8.x branch, the tests are running on Github Actions.

• InfluxDB

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• PCOV

  4 683 0.0 C

  PCOV - CodeCoverage compatible driver for PHP

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.

• pcov-clobber

  1 40 0.0 PHP

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

PHPUnit 8 and above supports PCOV out of the box, for PHPUnit 7 and lower you will need pcov-clobber

• laravel-docker

  1 922 4.8 Dockerfile

  🐳 Generic docker image for Laravel Applications (by lorisleiva)

Pcov was 4.43 times faster on my local machine inside a docker container.

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