Question

On a Windows 7 machine if I run a PHPUnit Selenium command like this manually in the terminal:

phpunit --verbose --log-junit _selenium_tests\results\home.xml _selenium_tests\frontend\home.php

It spawns a browser and runs the test just fine. Then it outputs the following on the screen:

Time: 10 seconds, Memory: 3.50Mb
OK (1 test, 3 assertions)

And the terminal stays open.

Now if I copy and paste the exact command in an empty file and save it as test.bat and click it, it also runs the test. I can see the browser open and all tests run. Only problem is it closes the terminal prompt right after. So I can’t see the above output.

An even bigger problem is, since it closes the terminal if I add more commands for other tests after that initial one they don’t run.

I tried adding:

pause

at the end of the bat file but no luck, it still closes. Any idea how to prevent this and be able to run one command after another without the terminal ever closing?

Answer 1

Your question is similar to this one. Try using call in front of your command. If you run a .bat file from another .bat file and don’t use call, control doesn’t return to the first batch file, so pause doesn’t get executed.