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Parallel Testing

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Use Paratest to run PHPUnit tests in parallel — cut suite execution time by 3-4x on multi-core CPUs.

Parallel Test Execution

composer require --dev brianium/paratest
./vendor/bin/paratest --processes=4

# Run specific suites
./vendor/bin/phpunit --testsuite=Unit
./vendor/bin/paratest --testsuite=Unit --processes=8

# Speedup example:
# Sequential: 45 seconds
# Parallel (4 cores): 14 seconds

# Tests must be truly isolated — no shared state