What is atoum?

atoum is a unit test framework like PHPUnit or SimpleTest, but it has a few advantages over these:

• It’s modern and uses the innovations of latest PHP versions;
• It’s simple and easy to learn;
• It’s intuitive because its syntax is close to the English natural language;
• despite constant changes to atoum, backward compatibility is one of the priorities of its developers.

You can find more information on the official website.

• 1. Start with atoum
  • 1.1. The philosophy of atoum
  • 1.2. Extension
• 2. Installation
  • 2.1. Composer
  • 2.2. PHAR archive
  • 2.3. Github
• 3. First Tests
  • 3.1. Dissecting the test
• 4. Running tests
  • 4.1. Executable
  • 4.2. Files to run
  • 4.3. Filters
• 5. How to write test cases
  • 5.1. given, if, and and then
  • 5.2. when
  • 5.3. assert
  • 5.4. newTestedInstance & testedInstance
  • 5.5. testedClass
• 6. Asserters collection
  • 6.1. afterDestructionOf
  • 6.2. array
  • 6.3. boolean
  • 6.4. castToArray
  • 6.5. castToString
  • 6.6. class
  • 6.7. dateInterval
  • 6.8. dateTime
  • 6.9. error
  • 6.10. exception
  • 6.11. extension
  • 6.12. float
  • 6.13. function
  • 6.14. generator
  • 6.15. hash
  • 6.16. integer
  • 6.17. mock
  • 6.18. mysqlDateTime
  • 6.19. object
  • 6.20. output
  • 6.21. resource
  • 6.22. sizeOf
  • 6.23. stream
  • 6.24. string
  • 6.25. utf8String
  • 6.26. variable
  • 6.27. Asserter & assertion tips
• 7. Mocking systems
  • 7.1. Generate a mock
  • 7.2. The mock generator
  • 7.3. Modify the behaviour of a mock
  • 7.4. Test mock
  • 7.5. The mocking (mock) of native PHP functions
  • 7.6. The mocking of constant
• 8. Execution engine
• 9. Loop mode
• 10. Debugging test cases
  • 10.1. dump
  • 10.2. stop
  • 10.3. executeOnFailure
• 11. Fine tuning atoum behaviour
  • 11.1. The initialization methods
• 12. Configuration & bootstraping
  • 12.1. Autoloader file
  • 12.2. Configuration file
  • 12.3. Bootstrap file
  • 12.4. Having fun with atoum
• 13. Annotations
  • 13.1. Class’s annotation
  • 13.2. Method’s annotation
  • 13.3. Data providers
  • 13.4. PHP Extensions
  • 13.5. PHP Version
• 14. Command line options
  • 14.1. Configuration & bootstrap
  • 14.2. Filtering
  • 14.3. Debug & loop
  • 14.4. Coverage & reports
  • 14.5. Failure & success
  • 14.6. Other arguments
• 15. Cookbook
  • 15.1. Change the default namespace
  • 15.2. Test of a singleton
  • 15.3. Hook git
  • 15.4. Use in behat
  • 15.5. Use with continous integration tools (CI)
  • 15.6. Use with Phing
  • 15.7. Use with frameworks
• 16. Integration of atoum in your IDE
  • 16.1. Sublime Text 2
  • 16.2. VIM
  • 16.3. PhpStorm
  • 16.4. Atom
  • 16.5. netbeans
  • 16.6. Automatically open failed tests
• 17. FAQ
  • 17.1. If you get an unknow error check if you have an error_log ?
  • 17.2. Is atoum always named atoum ?
  • 17.3. What’s the atoum license ?
  • 17.4. What’s the roadmap ?
• 18. Contribute
  • 18.1. How to contribute
  • 18.2. Coding convention
• 19. Licences