phpspec/phpspec

Specification-oriented BDD framework for PHP 7.1+

8.3.0 2026-04-13 14:13 UTC

Requires

• php: 8.2.* || 8.3.* || 8.4.* || 8.5.*
• ext-tokenizer: *
• doctrine/instantiator: ^1.3 || ^2
• phpspec/php-diff: ^1.0
• phpspec/prophecy: ^1.16
• sebastian/exporter: ^3.1 || ^4.0 || ^5.0 || ^6.0 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/console: ^5.4 || ^6.0 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/event-dispatcher: ^5.4 || ^6.0 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/finder: ^5.4 || ^6.0 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/process: ^5.4 || ^6.0 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/yaml: ^5.4 || ^6.0 || ^7.0 || ^8.0

Requires (Dev)

• bamarni/composer-bin-plugin: ^1.8
• behat/behat: ^3.14
• phpunit/phpunit: ^9.0 || ^10.0 || ^11.0 || ^12.0 || ^13.0
• symfony/filesystem: ^5.4 || ^6.0 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• vimeo/psalm: ^6.0

Suggests

• phpspec/nyan-formatters: Adds Nyan formatters

Conflicts

• sebastian/comparator: <1.2.4

MIT

• Konstantin Kudryashov
• Marcello Duarte
• Ciaran McNulty

• testing
• BDD
• TDD
• spec
• tests
• SpecBDD
• specification

README

The main website with documentation is at https://phpspec.net.

Installing Dependencies

Dependencies are handled via composer:

wget -nc https://getcomposer.org/composer.phar
php composer.phar install

Developer's mailing list

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Community

Check out #phpspec on irc.freenode.net.