PCOV vs. PHPUnit vs. Rainforest vs. jscoverage Comparison Chart

PHPUnit requires the dom and json extensions, which are normally enabled by default. PHPUnit also requires the pcre, reflection, and spl extensions. These standard extensions are enabled by default and cannot be disabled without patching PHP’s build system and/or C sources. The code coverage report feature requires the Xdebug (2.7.0 or later) and tokenizer extensions. Generating XML reports requires the xmlwriter extension. Unit Tests are primarily written as a good practice to help developers identify and fix bugs, to refactor code and to serve as documentation for a unit of software under test. To achieve these benefits, unit tests ideally should cover all the possible paths in a program. One unit test usually covers one specific path in one function or method. However a test method is not necessarily an encapsulated, independent entity. Often there are implicit dependencies between test methods, hidden in the implementation scenario of a test.

jscoverage tool, both node.js and JavaScript support. Enhance the coverage range. Use mocha to load the jscoverage module, then it works. jscoverage will append coverage info when you select list or spec or tap reporter in mocha. You can use covout to specify the reporter, like HTML, and detail. The detail reporter will print the uncovered code in the console directly. Mocha runs test case with jscoverage module. jscoverage will ignore files while listing in covignore file. jscoverage will output a report in HTML format. jscoverage will inject a group of functions into your module exports. default jscoverage will search covignore in the project root. jscoverage will copy exclude files from the source directory to the destination directory.