testing-phpunit

A PHPUnit testing guide for isolated Magento 2 PHP classes. PHPUnit is a tool for running automated tests, and isolated tests check one class without starting the full Magento application.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write unit tests with mocks, assertions, data providers, and exception checks for Magento service logic.
Why use it?
It helps avoid slow, fragile tests that depend on Magento startup, databases, or real framework services.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/caravanglory/magehub/testing-phpunit
Any agent
npx skills add caravanglory/magehub --skill testing-phpunit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/caravanglory/magehub

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Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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What it costs to keep this loaded

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Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00495
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00247

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9fb84c03347e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

testing-phpunit scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/testing/testing-phpunit/SKILL.md · 331 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 331 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PHPUnit Unit Tests

Activation

Use When
  • The task is to write or update Magento PHPUnit unit tests for isolated PHP classes without framework bootstrap.
  • The task mentions Test/Unit, PHPUnit mocks, data providers, exception assertions, or testing service logic.
Do Not Use When
  • The behavior requires Magento integration tests, database fixtures, web API functional tests, or full ObjectManager bootstrap.
  • The task is only to manually smoke-test UI behavior.
Required Inputs
  • Class under test, constructor dependencies, observable behavior, edge cases, and the project PHPUnit version/config path.
  • Whether collaborators should be mocks, stubs, real value objects, or in-memory fakes.

Workflow

  1. Read the production class and nearby tests before deciding the test shape.
  2. Instantiate the real class under test with mocks for direct dependencies only.
  3. Assert behavior, return values, state changes, exceptions, and meaningful collaborator side effects.
  4. Use data providers for repeated input matrices and keep test method names behavior-oriented.

Guardrails

  • Do not use ObjectManager, Magento bootstrap, database fixtures, or integration-test helpers in unit tests.
  • Do not mock the class under test.
  • Ask before refactoring production code solely to make tests pass when the behavior contract is unclear. (approval required)

Verification

  • Run the targeted PHPUnit test file or Test/Unit directory through the project environment wrapper.
  • Run a broader suite when shared service behavior or public APIs are touched.
  • Report skipped tests or unavailable PHPUnit config explicitly.

Output Contract

  • State test files added/updated, behaviors covered, mocks used, and exact PHPUnit command result.
  • Call out coverage gaps that remain outside unit-test scope.

Magento 2 Unit Test Strategy

Unit tests validate individual classes in isolation without the Magento framework, database, or object manager. They run in milliseconds and catch logic errors immediately. Place test classes in Test/Unit/ mirroring the production namespace.

Read the full file on GitHub · 331 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 331 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 9fb84c03347e

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testing-phpunit is a skill published in the GitHub repository caravanglory/magehub (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 2,474 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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