I've always been a heavy IDE user - but for some things, like running tests, I still prefered a terminal. Recently I've played around with the in-IDE possibilities for testing and was pretty satisfied with them. Since Symfony ships with a kinda custom testing experience here's how to setup your IDE to test your Symfony applications with it - and additional features of testing within your IDE.
IDE configuration
After following the current Testing documentation it's mandatory to manually run ./bin/phpunit
once in your terminal. Symfony will install its own instance of PHPUnit within your bin
directory which will provide the executable phpunit
file for our IDE.
After you've run this command you'll see a .phpunit
directory within your bin
directory.
For being able to run your tests via your IDE open your Settings window and navigate to Languages & Frameworks > PHP > Test Frameworks
.