# PHPUnit

PHPUnit is a programmer-oriented testing framework for PHP. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks.

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## Installation

We distribute a [PHP Archive (PHAR)](https://php.net/phar) that has all required (as well as some optional) dependencies of PHPUnit bundled in a single file:

```bash
$ wget https://phar.phpunit.de/phpunit-X.Y.phar

$ php phpunit-X.Y.phar --version
```

Please replace `X.Y` with the version of PHPUnit you are interested in.

Alternatively, you may use [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/) to download and install PHPUnit as well as its dependencies. Please refer to the "[Getting Started](https://phpunit.de/getting-started-with-phpunit.html)" guide for details on how to install PHPUnit.

## Contribute

Please refer to [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) for information on how to contribute to PHPUnit and its related projects.

## List of Contributors

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to PHPUnit! You can find a detailed list of contributors on every PHPUnit related package on GitHub. This list shows only the major components:

* [PHPUnit](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/graphs/contributors)
* [php-code-coverage](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/php-code-coverage/graphs/contributors)

A very special thanks to everyone who has contributed to the documentation and helps maintain the translations:

* [English](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit-documentation-english/graphs/contributors)
* [Spanish](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit-documentation-spanish/graphs/contributors)
* [French](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit-documentation-french/graphs/contributors)
* [Japanese](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit-documentation-japanese/graphs/contributors)
* [Brazilian Portuguese](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit-documentation-brazilian-portuguese/graphs/contributors)
* [Simplified Chinese](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit-documentation-chinese/graphs/contributors)