live627 / phpunit-garbage-collector
Reset properties to save memory after each test
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Requires
- php: >=7.4
- phpunit/phpunit: >=8.0
Requires (Dev)
- scrutinizer/ocular: ^1.9
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Last update: 2024-05-16 07:49:48 UTC
README
PHPUnit seems to waste a lot of memory because it instantiates a lot of objects before actually starting any test, meaning that the initial memory usage varies depending on the number of tests available.
Say, for example, that you have UserTest
with 1k test methods. This will unfortunately result in 1k UserTest class instances before any of the tests are actually run. This is actually by design. In order to determine the number of tests, PHPUnit runs @dataProvider
methods before actually running the tests (and the setUp method).
The problem comes once all of the tests in the test case have finished. Objects in memory are closer than they appear because they aren't dereferenced until after the entire test suite has finished. Fortunately, this is on the radar.
Inspired by Kris Wallsmith faster PHPUnit article. The claim that this test listener that speeds up PHPUnit tests about 20% by freeing memory is dubious and probably is outdated now that PHP 7 has rewritten zval
s to be a bit more compact.
Installation
To install this library, run the command below and you will get the latest version
composer require live627/phpunit-garbage-collector --dev
Usage
Just add to your phpunit.xml
configuration
<phpunit> <listeners> <listener class="\live627\PHPUnitGarbageCollector\MemoryGuard"/> </listeners> </phpunit>
Ignoring Tests
Sometimes it is necessary to ignore specific tests, where freeing their properties is undesired. For this use case, you have the ability to extend the behaviour of the listener by implementing the IgnoreTestPolicy
interface.
As an example, if we hypothetically wanted to ignore all tests which include "Legacy" in their test filename, we could create a custom ignore policy as follows
<?php use live627\PHPUnitGarbageCollector\IgnoreTestPolicy; class IgnoreLegacyTestPolicy implements IgnoreTestPolicy { public function shouldIgnore(\ReflectionObject $testReflection): bool { return strpos($testReflection->getFileName(), 'Legacy') !== false; } }
And pass it to the constructor of our test listener in phpunit.xml
configuration
<phpunit> <listeners> <listener class="\live627\PHPUnitGarbageCollector\MemoryGuard"> <arguments> <object class="\IgnoreLegacyTestPolicy"/> </arguments> </listener> </listeners> </phpunit>