Phpunit tries to test all Symfony console commands - symfony

Question

I'm working on a Symfony project. As I need to do unit testing, I downloaded and installed Phpunit 6.2.4 from its website.
However, when I tried to update my database, I got this output
php bin/console doctrine:schema:update --dump-sql
PHPUnit 6.2.4 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.
unrecognized option --dump-sql
bin/console doctrine:schema:update
Cannot open file "doctrine:schema:update.php".
I tried other console commands, but the result is the same. Basically, my guess was that somehow Phpunit tries to test every single file, so I edited the phpunit.xml file like this, using a previous one that worked in other project.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- http://phpunit.de/manual/4.1/en/appendixes.configuration.html -->
<phpunit xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://schema.phpunit.de/4.1/phpunit.xsd"
backupGlobals="false"
colors="true"
bootstrap="app/autoload.php"
>
<php>
<ini name="error_reporting" value="-1" />
<server name="KERNEL_DIR" value="app/" />
</php>
<testsuites>
<testsuite name="Project Test Suite">
<directory suffix=".php">tests</directory>
</testsuite>
</testsuites>
<filter>
<whitelist>
<directory suffix=".php">src</directory>
<exclude>
<directory>src/*Bundle/Resources</directory>
<directory>src/*/*Bundle/Resources</directory>
<directory>src/*/Bundle/*Bundle/Resources</directory>
</exclude>
</whitelist>
<blacklist>
<directory>bin</directory>
<directory>docker</directory>
</blacklist>
</filter>
</phpunit>
As far as I know, blacklisting both bin and docker directories should result in phpunit not running anything inside them, but it still doesn't work.
Then I checked my composer.json for the symfony/phpunit-bridge, removed it and tried again, but the problem continues.
Has anyone ever faced this?

Answer 1

Blacklisting appear to remove directories from the code-coverage generation whitelist - but if src/ does not contain those sub-directories, and so it is redundant - and also a great deal slower adding and discarding huge numbers of files. On one project, I tried to blacklist vendor/, it was taking a minute to even show the initial command banner, before starting to run the tests.
Remove the <blacklist/> section, and the rest should be fine - if you don't mention bin/ or docker/ then PHPunit won't need to read the files, it so won't run them either.