To get the Airtime unit tests running: ========================== 1) Install PHPUnit We explicitly install PHPUnit 3.4 because that the most recent version that's still supported by Zend Framework 1: sudo pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de sudo pear channel-discover pear.symfony.com sudo pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com sudo pear install channel://pear.symfony-project.com/YAML sudo pear install pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit-3.4.10 DO NOT INSTALL the DbUnit package! DbUnit overwrites a file that's actually part of the PHPUnit package, /usr/share/php/PHPUnit/Extensions/Database/DataSet/QueryTable.php with a version that's incompatible and gives an error for us. 2) Running the unit tests: 1. To run all the unit tests, run: $ sudo ./runtests.sh (It has to be run as root to access the database for now.) 2. To run one specific test, you can do something like: $ export AIRTIME_UNIT_TEST="1" $ sudo -E phpunit --filter testEditReatingShowInstance application/services/database/ShowServiceDbTest.php IMPORTANT: Make sure you use "sudo" with the "-E" flag so it preserves the environment variable we set before that.