Follow QuickStart Guide to Install and execute your first test in 6 easy steps.

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Composer (recommended)

To install via Composer, run this in your project's root:

composer require "codeception/codeception" --dev

From now on Codeception (with installed PHPUnit) can be run as:

php vendor/bin/codecept

Initialize your testing environment with

php vendor/bin/codecept bootstrap

Phar

wget https://codeception.com/php80/codecept.phardownload 

Execute it as php codecept.phar

wget https://codeception.com/codecept.phardownload 

Execute it as php codecept.phar

wget https://codeception.com/php56/codecept.phardownload 

Execute it as php codecept.phar

sudo curl -LsS https://codeception.com/php80/codecept.phar -o /usr/local/bin/codecept
sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/codecept

Execute it as codecept


Git

Alternative installation method for bugfixing, contributions and hacking

Clone from GitHub:

git clone [email protected]:Codeception/Codeception.git && cd Codeception

Install dependencies with Composer

composer install

Execute bootstrap, specifying path to your directory.

php codecept bootstrap /path/to/demo/project

To run tests use -c option for specifing path.

php codecept run -c /path/to/demo/project

Don't forget to send Pull Requests!