Testdox spinner cannot be disabled (and can be too verbose)

[BafS]

Q	A
PHPUnit version	8.0.1
PHP version	7.2
Installation Method	Composer

Since PHPUnit 8 I have pages of "running tests ◓" (introduced by #3497) with the testdox option on my CI (it does support ANSI codes but it cannot clear all output). Could we have an option to disable the spinner (eg. --no-progress) or to detect if the output support it ? I want to keep the colors.

The current workaround is to extends CliTestDoxPrinter.php.

Thanks in advance

[epdenouden]

@BafS Of course! The spinner should never get in your way. I will gladly make it more optional, I will start working on a config option and get a pull request tomorrow.

Question: what type of terminal/$TERM does this happen in and what CLI-options or phpunit.xml flags do you use? I'm guessing the terminal supports color but not all rendering or interactive features.

Thank you for taking the time to file an issue about this, by the way. Good to have it fixed.

[BafS]

@epdenouden Thank you for your message ! The "terminal" is the default gitlab web terminal.

[root@runner-5dda6155-project-56-concurrent-0 /]# echo $TERM;
xterm

The "problem" is just that it outputs the stream directly without clearing anything. It's not an interactive terminal when you run the tests but more an STDOUT stream.

I simply use --testdox --no-cover and the xml options are

 backupGlobals="false"
 backupStaticAttributes="false"
 verbose="true"
 colors="true"
 convertErrorsToExceptions="true"
 convertNoticesToExceptions="true"
 convertWarningsToExceptions="true"
 processIsolation="false"
 stopOnFailure="false"

Thanks for your help