# hugues-m/phpunit-vw

VW PHPUnit extension makes your failing test cases succeed under CI tools scrutiny

Repository: https://github.com/hugues-m/phpunit-vw
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/phpunit-vw
Language: PHP
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2018-01-31T13:19:16+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3992, "days_push": 3136, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1761, forks 40 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:32.683945+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: testing, e2e-testing, mocking
- domain: testing, developer-tools
- platform: php, cli
- tags: phpunit, joke, satire, continuous-integration, test-listener

## Member repositories
- hugues-m/phpunit-vw (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:32.683945+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:27:11.546151+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/hugues-m/phpunit-vw (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:32.683945+00:00, sha cdac0d1bf0d0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.