All tests can be run from the src/test/php directory by running: $ phpunit Tests classes are divided into groups which can be run individually: $ phpunit --group main $ phpunit --group appenders $ phpunit --group configurators $ phpunit --group filters $ phpunit --group helpers $ phpunit --group layouts $ phpunit --group renderers Individual test classes can be run using e.g.: $ phpunit appenders/LoggerAppenderSocketTest.php When using relative paths in the tests, be aware that "mvn test" does a changedir to this directory. So dirname(__FILE__).'/../../' is preferred.