Ross ROSS = Recommend OSS · open-source software intelligence for agents

hugues-m/phpunit-vw

VW PHPUnit extension makes your failing test cases succeed under CI tools scrutiny observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/hugues-m/phpunit-vw · PHP · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

23/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 3992
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 3136
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1761 stars · 40 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A PHPUnit extension created as a joke during the 2015 Volkswagen emissions scandal that detects CI environments and makes failing test suites report success. It is explicitly not recommended for real use and exists only for fun or trolling QA colleagues.

Use cases

  • make failing tests pass in CI as a joke
  • prank QA colleagues with a satirical PHPUnit listener
  • demonstrate the VW emissions scandal test-detection concept
  • add a humorous listener to a PHP test suite

When to choose

  • you want a novelty joke package for a talk, blog post, or office prank
  • you are illustrating how test-detection software can fake results

When to avoid

  • any real project where test results matter
  • production or professional CI pipelines
  • projects needing maintained or supported tooling

Facets

library · maturity abandoned

testing e2e-testing mocking testing developer-tools php cli phpunit joke satire continuous-integration test-listener

1 source

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
hugues-m/phpunit-vwmain23

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="hugues-m/phpunit-vw")

Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00 · Report a problem