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✅ Concise is test framework for using plain English and minimal code, built on PHPUnit.

Is elliotchance/concise beginner-friendly?

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45
Forks
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Open beginner issues
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Indexed issues
71
Dominant language
PHP
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
Oct 19, 2018
Latest indexed
Sep 15, 2026
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  • Incompatible with phpunit 6
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elliotchance/concise#353 · 8 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • unknown file/line
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elliotchance/concise#351 · 3 comments ·

  • array equals diff
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elliotchance/concise#350 · 3 comments ·

  • Remove AbstractTheme::getTheme()
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    Component: Core Size: 1 (Small) Type: Improvement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    elliotchance/concise#347 · 1 comment ·

  • vendor/ path is hardcoded
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    Component: Core Size: 1 (Small) Type: Bug

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    elliotchance/concise#345 ·

  • Assertions for testing if files exist
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    Component: Matcher Size: 1 (Small) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    elliotchance/concise#344 ·

  • Fatal error for tests with @runTestsInSeparateProcesses @preserveGlobalState
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    elliotchance/concise#343 · 2 comments ·

  • Bad formatting on jenkins CI printing
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    Component: CLI Size: 1 (Small) Type: Bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    elliotchance/concise#339 · 1 comment ·

  • Show memory usage in CLI
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    Component: CLI Size: 2 (Medium) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    elliotchance/concise#333 ·

  • Deep comparisons with self::ANYTHING
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    Component: Matcher Size: 2 (Medium) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 40/100

    elliotchance/concise#332 ·

  • Document get and set property
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    Component: Wiki/Documentation Size: 1 (Small) Type: Improvement

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elliotchance/concise#327 ·

  • Compare arrays in any order
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    Component: Matcher Size: 1 (Small) Type: Improvement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    elliotchance/concise#320 ·

  • Show memory usage in CLI
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    Component: CLI Size: 1 (Small) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    elliotchance/concise#316 ·

  • describe() for assertions
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    Component: Matcher Size: 2 (Medium) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    elliotchance/concise#315 ·

  • Date assertions for before/after now
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    Component: Matcher Size: 1 (Small) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    elliotchance/concise#307 ·

  • SetUp() and tearDown() once fixtures
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    Component: Core Size: 1 (Small) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    elliotchance/concise#305 ·

  • Remove support for minor versions of PHPUnit 4.x
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    Component: Build Process Size: 1 (Small) Type: Improvement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elliotchance/concise#302 · 1 comment ·

  • Pho on 5.6 not working
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    Component: CLI Size: 2 (Medium) Type: Bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elliotchance/concise#301 ·

  • Add a dot result printer
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    Component: CLI Size: 2 (Medium) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

    elliotchance/concise#300 ·

  • Submit docs to Dash
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    Component: Wiki/Documentation Size: 3 (Large) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    elliotchance/concise#296 ·

  • enableConstructor() for mock()
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    Component: Mocking Size: 1 (Small) Type: Improvement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elliotchance/concise#295 ·

  • isZero, isNegative, isPositive, isOne, etc
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    Component: Matcher Size: 1 (Small) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    elliotchance/concise#294 ·

  • fakedb for mocking SQL databases
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    Component: Core Size: 3 (Large) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    elliotchance/concise#291 ·

  • File and directory filters for syntaxes
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    Component: Core Size: 1 (Small) Type: Improvement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elliotchance/concise#290 ·

  • Inline tests
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    Component: Core Size: 2 (Medium) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    elliotchance/concise#289 ·

  • NaN and INF assertions
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    Component: Matcher Size: 1 (Small) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    elliotchance/concise#287 ·

  • ? is ISO 8601 date string
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    Component: Matcher Size: 1 (Small) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    elliotchance/concise#280 ·

  • Empty pit mocks
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    Component: Mocking Size: 2 (Medium) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    elliotchance/concise#277 ·

  • Invocation::getArgument() with named arguments
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    Component: Mocking Size: 2 (Medium) Type: Improvement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    elliotchance/concise#272 ·

  • Show more information for bad mock() invocations
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    Component: Mocking Size: 1 (Small) Type: Improvement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elliotchance/concise#271 ·

  • andCallMethod()
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    Component: Mocking Size: 2 (Medium) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    elliotchance/concise#268 ·

  • andCallOriginalMethod()
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    Component: Mocking Size: 1 (Small) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    elliotchance/concise#267 ·

  • Assertions for class, interface exists
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    Component: Matcher Size: 1 (Small) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    elliotchance/concise#262 ·

  • Modifiers for counting matches in strings
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    Component: Matcher Size: 2 (Medium) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elliotchance/concise#260 ·

  • Add support for verify in PHPUnit
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    Component: Matcher Size: 1 (Small) Type: Improvement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    elliotchance/concise#245 ·

  • Observer mocks
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    Component: Mocking Size: 3 (Large) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    elliotchance/concise#233 ·

  • Ability to generate mocks from other already defined mocks
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    Component: Mocking Size: 2 (Medium) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elliotchance/concise#230 ·

  • Matchers for URL parameters
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    Component: Matcher Size: 1 (Small) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    elliotchance/concise#218 ·

  • Run multiple test files
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    Component: CLI Size: 2 (Medium) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    elliotchance/concise#212 ·

  • GUID matchers
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    Component: Matcher Size: 2 (Medium) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elliotchance/concise#204 ·

  • ? are sorted
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    Component: Matcher Size: 2 (Medium) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

    elliotchance/concise#200 ·

  • Improve backtraces
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    Component: CLI Size: 2 (Medium) Type: Improvement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    elliotchance/concise#197 ·

  • Must be a way to set the colour scheme
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    Component: CLI Size: 2 (Medium) Type: Improvement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    elliotchance/concise#193 ·

  • Allow mocking for chains
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    Component: Mocking Size: 2 (Medium) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elliotchance/concise#181 ·

  • Spell checker service
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    Component: Core Size: 2 (Medium) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    elliotchance/concise#172 ·

  • Use magic getters for building mocks
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    Component: Mocking Size: 1 (Small)

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    elliotchance/concise#171 ·

  • Matchers to search arrays recursively
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    Component: Matcher Size: 2 (Medium) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    elliotchance/concise#170 ·

  • ?:array has item ?:array in key path ?:string
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    Component: Matcher Size: 2 (Medium) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    elliotchance/concise#169 ·

  • Running tests in parallel?
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    Component: CLI Size: 3 (Large) Type: Feature

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

    elliotchance/concise#165 ·

  • Concise to support fractional time limits
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    Component: CLI Type: Feature

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    elliotchance/concise#164 ·

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