phpspec/phpspec

Specification-oriented BDD framework for PHP 7.1+

9.0.0-beta.6 2026-07-11 21:53 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.2 || ^8.3 || ^8.4 || ^8.5
• ext-mbstring: *
• ext-tokenizer: *
• cucumber/gherkin: ^39.0
• symfony/console: ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/yaml: ^7.0 || ^8.0

Requires (Dev)

• friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer: ^3.75
• papi-ai/google: ^0.9
• papi-ai/papi-core: ^0.9
• phpstan/phpstan: ^2.1

Suggests

• ext-curl: Required for AI features (pair, next, refactor)
• ext-dom: For JUnit XML and Clover coverage reports
• ext-posix: For terminal width detection
• ext-readline: For interactive pair mode
• ext-xdebug: For code coverage reporting
• papi-ai/anthropic: Anthropic Claude AI provider
• papi-ai/google: Google Gemini AI provider
• papi-ai/openai: OpenAI GPT AI provider
• papi-ai/papi-core: Required for AI features (pair, next, refactor)

MIT

• Konstantin Kudryashov
• Marcello Duarte
• Ciaran McNulty

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

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-07-11 21:55 UTC

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

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Community

Check out #phpspec on irc.freenode.net.