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# Running specific PHPUnit data provider data set with PhpStorm



I'm a huge fan of using [data sets for PHPUnit test cases](https://docs.phpunit.de/en/9.5/writing-tests-for-phpunit.html#data-providers) to cover as many permutations as possible with given inputs. The only problem is when you want to execute a specific data set for the test. I'm not much of a PHPUnit command line guru since I run tests individually in PhpStorm. My workflow is generally: run the test method and use re-run failed tests to execute those specific data sets. But! This has changed with recent versions of PhpStorm.

Now there is the ability to run an individual data set for a test. You can now click the gutter icon to run or debug a specific data set for a PHPUnit test like running individual tests.

     ![Data provider for a test with "run" arrows in the IDE gutter](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-02/Screenshot%202023-02-22%20at%204.31.19%20PM.png?itok=PtDP7daE) 

 

I don't know what version released this feature. It is not called out in the [release notes](https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/whatsnew/) but I think it may have been with 2022.2 when they released highlighting failed test assertions.

 

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