Manual talk:PHP unit testing/Running the tests

Outdated instructions
The terminal instructions suggests "make databaseless" to prepare tests. Here the results. --Dereckson (talk) 02:55, 10 January 2013 (UTC) /home/dereckson/dev/mediawiki/bench/core/tests/phpunit ] make databaseless php phpunit.php --configuration /suite.xml --exclude-group Broken,ParserFuzz,Destructive,Database,Stub Could not read "/suite.xml". *** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/home/dereckson/dev/mediawiki/bench/core/tests/phpunit.
 * Actually, this is a UNIX-compliance issue in Makefile: $(shell command) is a GNU-only Make extension.
 * $PWD would work everywhere.
 * Reported at 43808 --Dereckson (talk) 03:03, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

How to run tests without a foo.suite.xml?
Most extensions don't have a foo.suite.xml file, yet somehow their tests run. Developers need to know how to run existing PHP tests without faffing about with .xml files. There are no instructions for this, and pointing phpunit.php at a particular test fails for me