Unable enable coverage in unit tests

I am running tests with xebug.mode set using php

php -dxdebug.mode=coverage  ./artisan test -p --coverage

It runs the tests, and after passing I see warnings

 WARN  No code coverage driver is available.

   WARN  Unable to get coverage using Xdebug. Did you set Xdebug's coverage mode?

It only works when I set environment variable XDEBUG_MODE=coverage. I am OK with this approach, but want to learn why it didn't work with the first approach given here XDEBUG_MODE does same thing as setting via php -dxdebug.mode=coverage?

Merklin

1 year ago

Level 7

Modify phpunit.xml. As an example, this is the one I use:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<phpunit xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit.xsd"
         bootstrap="vendor/autoload.php"
         colors="true"
         beStrictAboutCoverageMetadata="true"
         beStrictAboutOutputDuringTests="true"
         stopOnDefect="true"
>
    <testsuites>
        <testsuite name="Unit">
            <directory>tests/Unit</directory>
        </testsuite>
        <testsuite name="Livewire">
            <directory>tests/Livewire</directory>
        </testsuite>
        <testsuite name="Feature">
            <directory>tests/Feature</directory>
        </testsuite>
    </testsuites>
    <source>
        <include>
            <directory>app</directory>
        </include>
        <exclude>
            <directory>app/Console</directory>
            <directory>app/Scopes</directory>
            <directory>app/Tables</directory>
        </exclude>
    </source>
    <php>
        <env name="APP_ENV" value="testing"/>
        <env name="APP_MAINTENANCE_DRIVER" value="file"/>
        <env name="BCRYPT_ROUNDS" value="4"/>
        <env name="CACHE_STORE" value="array"/>
        <env name="MAIL_MAILER" value="array"/>
        <env name="PULSE_ENABLED" value="false"/>
        <env name="QUEUE_CONNECTION" value="sync"/>
        <env name="SESSION_DRIVER" value="array"/>
        <env name="TELESCOPE_ENABLED" value="false"/>
    </php>
    <logging>
        <testdoxHtml outputFile="tests/logfile.html"/>
    </logging>
    <coverage>
        <report>
            <html outputDirectory="tests/Coverage" lowUpperBound="50" highLowerBound="90"/>
        </report>
    </coverage>
</phpunit>

The <source> determines which folders to be covered in the coverage and which folders to be excluded.

Regarding x-debug, excluding the debug mode is not good if you or your editor use it, but you can stack the options like xdebug.mode=debug,coverage at the end of php.ini.