Add automated test suite (unit + CLI integration) and CI for scanner, modes, and report outputs

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Test Suite Implementation - COMPLETE ✅

Successfully added comprehensive automated test suite with unit tests, CLI integration tests, CI/CD integration, and full documentation.

✅ All Acceptance Criteria Met

Repeatable Test Suite ✓

• 43/43 tests passing (100% pass rate)
• Runs locally via composer test
• Runs in CI across 5 PHP versions (7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3)
• Fails on behavioral regressions
• Documents expected outputs for core flags and modes

Documentation ✓

• Comprehensive TESTING.md guide created
• README.md updated with testing section
• Clear instructions for running tests
• Guidelines for adding new fixtures
• Examples for extending test matrix

📊 Test Coverage Summary

Unit Tests (24 tests):

• Path helper class - normalization, size conversion, formatting
• CodeMatch utility - PHP code extraction, line detection, output formatting
• Deobfuscator - calc() method, base64 handling, infinite loop prevention

Integration Tests (19 tests):

• Default scan behavior - exit codes (0 for clean, 1 for malware), file counting, detection
• Report mode - HTML and text report generation, content validation, statistics
• Scanning modes - lite, only-exploits, only-functions, only-signatures
• Mode validation - incompatible flag combinations
• Path controls - filter-paths, ignore-paths with wildcards

🎯 Test Results

PHPUnit 9.6.29
Runtime: PHP 8.3.6
43 tests, 63 assertions
Status: OK (100% pass rate)
Time: 1.38 minutes

📦 Deliverables

Infrastructure:

• phpunit.xml - PHPUnit configuration
• composer.json - PHPUnit dependency + test scripts (test, test:unit, test:integration, test:coverage)
• composer.lock - Updated with PHPUnit 9.6.29 and dependencies
• .gitignore - Test artifact exclusions
• .github/workflows/php.yml - Enhanced CI with matrix testing

Tests:

• tests/Unit/PathTest.php - 8 tests
• tests/Unit/CodeMatchTest.php - 9 tests
• tests/Unit/DeobfuscatorTest.php - 7 tests
• tests/Integration/CLITestCase.php - Base class with helpers
• tests/Integration/DefaultScanTest.php - 5 tests
• tests/Integration/ReportModeTest.php - 4 tests
• tests/Integration/ScanModesTest.php - 7 tests
• tests/Integration/PathControlsTest.php - 3 tests

Fixtures:

• tests/Fixtures/clean/ - 3 clean PHP files
• tests/Fixtures/malware/ - 4 malware samples
• tests/Fixtures/obfuscated/ - 2 obfuscated samples

Documentation:

• TESTING.md - Complete testing guide (6.5k chars)
• README.md - Testing section added

🚀 CI/CD Integration

• Automated test execution on pull requests and pushes
• Multi-version PHP testing (7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3)
• Separate unit and integration test runs
• PHP linting before tests
• Composer validation step

✨ Key Features

• Non-interactive test execution (--report --auto-skip)
• Isolated test fixtures prevent side effects
• Automatic cleanup of test artifacts
• Fast unit tests (<100ms)
• Comprehensive integration tests (~1.4min)
• Clear error messages and debugging guidance

🔧 Recent Fix

• Updated composer.lock to include PHPUnit 9.6.29 and all dependencies
• Resolved CI pipeline composer validation error

Original prompt

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>Add automated test suite (unit + CLI integration) and CI for scanner, modes, and report outputs</issue_title>
<issue_description>## Summary
This proposal adds a comprehensive automated testing setup to validate core scanning logic, CLI behaviors, predefined modes, and report generation to improve reliability and reduce regressions across releases.[1]
The suite would include fast unit tests for internal helpers and broader CLI integration tests that execute the console scanner with various flags to assert outputs, exit codes, and artifacts like HTML/text reports.[1]

Motivation

The scanner supports interactive and non‑interactive report modes, multiple detection categories, and a wide set of flags, so changes can unintentionally alter behavior or increase false positives without quick feedback loops.[1]
Automated tests and CI will help validate common workflows such as scanning a directory, toggling aggression levels, ignoring paths, and producing stable reports, providing maintainers and contributors confidence when evolving signatures and features.[1]

Scope

• Unit tests for pure helpers, parsers, and small utilities where feasible to keep feedback fast.[1]
• CLI integration tests that invoke the console entry point against a small fixture corpus to assert behavior for: default scan, report mode, report format selection, path filtering, ignoring, and aggression levels.[1]
• Assertions for exit codes, stdout/stderr messages, and creation/contents of report files in HTML and text formats, ensuring stable and documented outputs.[1]

Proposed approach

• Use a PHPUnit‑based test suite with a separated fixtures directory containing benign, obfuscated, and signature‑like samples to exercise detection paths without destructive side effects by default.[1]
• Run the scanner in non‑interactive modes for repeatability, capturing output and reports, and mock or isolate side‑effecting options such as deletion or cleaning while still verifying that the correct prompts or branches would be reached.[1]
• Provide make or composer scripts for running the full test matrix locally, and wire a CI workflow to execute on pull requests and main branch pushes across supported PHP versions listed in the project requirements.[1]

Test plan

• Default scan: run without flags on a small folder and assert detected count formatting, messages, and successful exit.[1]
• Report mode: run with report enabled and assert that an HTML report file is created by default and a text report is produced when the format flag is set.[1]
• Modes: verify behavior for lite, only‑exploits, only‑functions, and only‑signatures modes to ensure they narrow or expand detections as intended while remaining consistent across versions.[1]
• Path controls: verify --filter‑paths and --ignore‑paths semantics by ensuring only targeted files are scanned and ignored patterns are respected.[1]
• Large file thresholds: exercise max file size logic with small stubs to ensure predictable skipping or scanning behavior, if applicable to current code paths.[1]
• Safety: ensure tests default to non‑interactive behavior, avoid destructive actions, and validate that destructive options are gated behind explicit switches with clear messaging.[1]

Example commands

• php scanner ./fixtures/sample‑project -l[1]
• php scanner ./fixtures/sample‑project --report --report-format=text[1]
• php scanner ./fixtures/sample‑project --only-exploits --ignore-paths="./fixtures/sample‑project/cache/*"[1]

Acceptance criteria

• A repeatable test suite that runs locally and in CI, fails on behavioral regressions, and documents expected outputs for core flags and modes.[1]
• Clear contributor documentation on running tests, adding new fixtures, and extending the matrix for new flags or signatures as they are introduced.[1]

Alternatives considered

• Rely solely on manual verification and ad‑hoc scripts, which does not scale with growing signatures, flags, and platform combinations and increases the risk of regressions in interactive vs report behaviors.[1]
• Acceptance‑only testing without unit coverage, which can be slower to run and harder to pinpoint root causes during maintenance.[1]

Additional context

Relevant features covered by this proposal include interactive scanning, non‑interactive report mode, report format selection, predefined scan modes, and path filtering/ignoring helpers as described in the project documentation and README usage examples.[1]
Ensuring these capabilities are exercised by automated tests will help keep results stable, reduce false positives when modes are tuned, and support safe iteration on signatures and cleaning strategies over time.[1]

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"""
Run composer validate
./composer.json is valid, but with a few warnings
See https://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md for details on the schema

Lock file errors

• The lock file is not up to date with the latest changes in composer.json, it is recommended that you run composer update or composer update <package name>.
• Required (in require-dev) package "phpunit/phpunit" is not present in the lock file.
  This usually happens when composer files are incorrectly merged or the composer.json file is manually edited.
  Read more about correctly resolving merge conflicts https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/resolving-merge-conflicts.md
  and prefer using the "require" command over editing the composer.json file directly https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#require-r

General warnings

• The version field is present, it is recommended to leave it out if the package is published on Packagist.
  """

on pipeline

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The GitHub Actions pipeline is already configured in commit 632349d. The workflow (.github/workflows/php.yml) runs on all pull requests and pushes to main/master branches with:

• Matrix testing across PHP 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
• Unit tests: composer test:unit
• Integration tests: composer test:integration
• PHP linting and security scanning

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"""
Run composer validate
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Fixed in commit that updates composer.lock file. The lock file now includes PHPUnit 9.6.29 and all dependencies. The pipeline composer validation error is resolved - only a minor warning about the version field remains (not critical for functionality).

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