1# PHPUnit 2 3PHPUnit is a programmer-oriented testing framework for PHP. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks. 4 5[](https://packagist.org/packages/phpunit/phpunit) 6[](https://php.net/) 7[](https://phpunit.de/build-status.html) 8 9## Installation 10 11We 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: 12 13```bash 14$ wget https://phar.phpunit.de/phpunit.phar 15 16$ chmod +x phpunit.phar 17 18$ mv phpunit.phar /usr/local/bin/phpunit 19``` 20 21You can also immediately use the PHAR after you have downloaded it, of course: 22 23```bash 24$ wget https://phar.phpunit.de/phpunit.phar 25 26$ php phpunit.phar 27``` 28 29Alternatively, you may use [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/) to download and install PHPUnit as well as its dependencies. Please refer to the [documentation](https://phpunit.de/documentation.html) for details on how to do this. 30 31## Contribute 32 33Please 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. 34 35## List of Contributors 36 37Thanks 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: 38 39* [PHPUnit](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/graphs/contributors) 40* [PHP_CodeCoverage](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/php-code-coverage/graphs/contributors) 41* [PHPUnit_MockObject](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit-mock-objects/graphs/contributors) 42 43A very special thanks to everyone who has contributed to the documentation and helps maintain the translations: 44 45* [PHPUnit Documentation](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit-documentation/graphs/contributors) 46 47
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