PHPUnit setup with Composer, a sample project structure and a tiny sample test.

guardme.sh

#!/bin/bash -e

# Use guard like described in http://erichogue.ca/2012/09/php/continuous-testing-in-php-with-guard/
# But without guard-phpunit as this isn't ready for the composer setup...

sudo aptitude install ruby1.9.3
sudo gem install guard guard-shell rb-inotify --no-rdoc --no-ri

cat > Guardfile << "EOF"
guard :shell do
  watch(%r{^.+Test\.php$}) { |m| `clear ; date; ./vendor/bin/phpunit --colors #{m[0]}`  }
end
EOF

guard

init.sh

#!/bin/bash -e

mkdir -p {Classes,Tests}

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
cat > composer.json <<EOF
{
    "name": "aoe/testing",
    "license": "BSD-3-Clause",
    "authors": [{ "name": "Tolleiv Nietsch" }],
    "require-dev": {
        "phpunit/phpunit": "*"
    },
    "minimum-stability": "dev"
}
EOF
php composer.phar install --dev --quiet


cat > phpunit.xml <<EOF
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<phpunit backupGlobals="false" backupStaticAttributes="false" colors="true" processIsolation="false" stopOnFailure="false" syntaxCheck="true">
    <testsuites>
        <testsuite name="suite">
            <directory>./Tests</directory>
        </testsuite>
    </testsuites>

    <filter>
        <whitelist>
            <directory>./Classes</directory>
        </whitelist>
    </filter>
</phpunit>
EOF
cat > ./Tests/DemoTest.php << "EOF"
<?php
class DemoTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
        /**
         * @test
         */
        public function first() {
                $this->assertTrue(false);
        }
}
?>
EOF

./vendor/bin/phpunit ./Tests/StackTest.php