phpunit command doesn't work for laravel 4 on windows 7

The solution for me:

php vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit

This, of course, assumes you've set up a php environment variable in Windows

As Unnawut said, it doesn't work because vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit is not a native Windows executable. You need a .bat or .cmd file that will basically call 'php phpunit'. There should be one in vendor/bin, but to make life easy, try this - create a file phpunit.bat (or .cmd) at the root of your site, containing this:

@ECHO OFF
SET BIN_TARGET=%~dp0/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit
php "%BIN_TARGET%" %*

Now you can call phpunit from the command line at the root of the site.

If you are a window user and you are having this issue, do this:

You need to tell Window where to find PHPUnit command, you can first of all verify that this file exists in your Laravel project under /vendor/bin

Finally you need to append the full path to /vendor/bin in your window PATH variable,

To do this: 1. Right-click on 'Computer' then click properties

2. On the second window click Advanced system settings

3. On the next window under Advanced click Environmental Variables

4. On the next window double-click PATH then set PATH variable by appending

the full path to your laravel-project/vendor/bin; Notice the ; at the end.

NB: Other variables might already exists in the PATH, so ensure you don't overwrite them by appending your own at the very end

5. Finally click Ok on all the dialog boxes