pestphp/pest

The elegant testing framework for PHP developers and AI agents.

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Dominant language: PHP
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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203 open issues indexed

[Bug]: [mutate] Windows: @pest-mutate-ignore comments land on line 1 in files with LF line endings Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

pestphp/pest#1928 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
[Bug]: [mutate] Windows: quoted --filter breaks cmd when a line is covered by several tests, so every mutant counts as killed Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 80/100

pestphp/pest#1927 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
The `pest-plugin-agent` skill is enormous, presumptuous, and instructs the agent to install other packages Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

pestphp/pest#1920 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 16, 2026
TIA's JS module graph is always empty for Vue projects (rolldown cannot parse SFCs) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

pestphp/pest#1918 · Opened Sep 16, 2026
TIA: the documented CI baseline command records no graph, and unlocking it would record an under-selecting one Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

pestphp/pest#1917 · Opened Sep 16, 2026
[mutate] Windows: forward-slash outer argv[0] fails to launch per-mutant children, every mutant silently reports killed Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

pestphp/pest#1916 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 15, 2026
[Bug]: Browser element assertion hangs forever instead of timing out when the element never appears Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

pestphp/pest#1911 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
[Bug]: Browser plugin — evaluate()/script() can return another call's result (processResultResponse ignores the request id) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

pestphp/pest#1910 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 14, 2026
[pest-plugin-browser] Client::execute() loops forever once the Playwright websocket is closed (run hangs at 100% CPU or exhausts memory) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

pestphp/pest#1909 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
[pest-plugin-browser] A missing selector hangs forever instead of honouring the action timeout, and enforceTimeLimit then corrupts every later test in the process Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

pestphp/pest#1908 · Opened Sep 13, 2026
[Bug]: ->with([A::class, B::class]) is called as a [class, method] callable instead of iterated, dropping the test Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

pestphp/pest#1902 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 10, 2026
[Bug]: bin/pest --drift does not take into account strict_types=1 during migration Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

pestphp/pest#1901 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 9, 2026
[Bug]: [pest-plugin-browser] assertNoJavaScriptErrors() never fails — errors read back as empty, and not captured at all on app pages Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

pestphp/pest#1899 · Opened Sep 6, 2026
[Bug]: --exactly flag does not return a non zero exit code when it should fail Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

pestphp/pest#1897 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
[pest-plugin-browser] Page::waitForLoadState() never sends its message — waitForEvent() is a silent no-op Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

pestphp/pest#1892 · Opened Aug 28, 2026
`expect()->toBeInstanceOf()` / `not->toBeNull()` / `toBeString()` etc. don't narrow types like PHPUnit's assert methods` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

pestphp/pest#1888 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 25, 2026
[Bug]: Browser plugin — ignoreHTTPSErrors and bypassCSP are set in two places and applied in neither Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

pestphp/pest#1887 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
[Bug]: Pest 5 concurrency — parallel coverage loses a covered line, and --mutate --parallel reports survivors as killed Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

pestphp/pest#1885 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 21, 2026
[Browser plugin] assertScreenshotMatches() fails on byte differences, making the pixel tolerances unreachable Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

pestphp/pest#1881 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
[Bug]: In TIA mode on Windows there's a 1 minute execution overhead, even 100% of tests are replayed and Pest reports "just 2 seconds" Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

pestphp/pest#1880 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
TIA: a suite absent from the graph can never be recorded while a graph exists — replay only refreshes tests the graph already knows Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

pestphp/pest#1877 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 20, 2026
[Browser] attach() uploads never reach the application — LaravelHttpServer discards files and does not parse multipart bodies Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

pestphp/pest#1873 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 16, 2026
[Bug]: flaky() retries increment the snapshot counter, so a mismatching snapshot silently self-heals Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

pestphp/pest#1871 · Opened Aug 15, 2026
@nunomaduro Composer is made in a way that the vendor directory can be renamed (for a reason or another). If this PR seems with a lot of "unrelated" changes ... okey. But is it possible po have pestphp get the vendor fir from composer just like the ComposerScripts of laravel does ? Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

pestphp/pest#1870 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
TIA: the Xdebug recorder traces vendor/ and then discards it, where the pcov path restricts up front Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

pestphp/pest#1865 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
TIA: runs without --tia write to the machine-global TIA state Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

pestphp/pest#1859 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
TIA: the fingerprint ignores the config actually in use (-c / --configuration) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

pestphp/pest#1858 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
TIA: a run that overlaps a commit records a passing result for code it never executed Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

pestphp/pest#1856 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
[Bug]: Browser plugin — suite hangs silently with the websocket alive and the browser never navigating (distinct from #1801) Open

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

pestphp/pest#1855 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
[Bug]: Browser test not running with ./vendor/bin/pest command Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

pestphp/pest#1853 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
Browser plugin 5.0.1: waitForExpectation's hardcoded 1s per-attempt timeout now takes effect, silently re-running page scripts Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

pestphp/pest#1852 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 12, 2026
[Bug]: `--shard` silently disables `--tia` — the shard is rewritten to `--filter`, which counts as a partial run Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

pestphp/pest#1849 · Opened Aug 11, 2026
[Bug]: 2 unkeyed (Model::class) datasets fail Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

pestphp/pest#1847 · Opened Aug 11, 2026
[mutate] Symfony Process deadlocks under the mutation StreamWrapper — timed-out mutants are scored as killed Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

pestphp/pest#1843 · Opened Aug 10, 2026
[Bug]: TIA records a `match` dispatch line as executable-with-zero-hits, so a replayed `--coverage` run is one line short Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

pestphp/pest#1828 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 7, 2026
[Bug]: browser plugin — missing vendor/pest-plugins.json fails as "WebSocket client is not connected" instead of naming the cause Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

pestphp/pest#1826 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 6, 2026
[Bug]: browser plugin — Playwright server survives the parent on SIGTERM (the signal CI uses to cancel) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

pestphp/pest#1825 · Opened Aug 6, 2026
[Bug]: In a git worktree every TIA fingerprint input is null, so composer.lock / phpunit.xml changes never invalidate the graph Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

pestphp/pest#1810 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 31, 2026
[Bug]: Test file names with php reserved keywords crash the test Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 73/100

pestphp/pest#1803 · Opened Jul 31, 2026
[Bug]: Browser plugin — Client::execute() spins at 100% CPU forever when the Playwright connection closes Open

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

pestphp/pest#1801 · Opened Jul 30, 2026
[Bug]: `--coverage` dies after a green suite when the merged report exceeds 4GiB: PHP's lexer silently truncates the heredoc token to `size mod 2^32` Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

pestphp/pest#1800 · Opened Jul 30, 2026
Tia: coverage cache downloaded from another machine empties the coverage report — no per-file rows, bogus Total: 100.0%, --min passes Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

pestphp/pest#1796 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 30, 2026
[Bug]: --tia option not recognized depending on option order Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

pestphp/pest#1791 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 30, 2026
[Bug]: `--coverage` console report fails on macOS for large suites: `require` of a >2 GiB `coverage.php` hits the 2 GiB single-syscall limit Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

pestphp/pest#1789 · Opened Jul 29, 2026
TIA: change detection misses all changes when the Pest project is a subdirectory of the git repository (monorepo) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

pestphp/pest#1783 · 2 comments · 24 reactions · Opened Jul 29, 2026
[Bug]: Browser plugin — actions on a zero-match locator hang forever instead of failing Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

pestphp/pest#1781 · Opened Jul 28, 2026
Add fallback when git is unavailable in TIA mode (Docker environments) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

pestphp/pest#1777 · 2 comments · 10 reactions · Opened Jul 28, 2026
Exit code 1 on a fully green `--parallel` run combined with `--filter`/`--group` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

pestphp/pest#1774 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 28, 2026
Mutation testing: --filter exceeds the kernel's per-argument limit (and PCRE's compile limit) on widely-covered classes Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

pestphp/pest#1771 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 25, 2026
[Bug]: type-coverage cache lock bails out after 100ms and then writes unlocked, corrupting .temp/v3.php Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

pestphp/pest#1766 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 22, 2026

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