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+Using the VarDumper component in your PHPUnit test suite
+--------------------------------------------------------
+
+.. versionadded:: 2.7
+    The :class:`Symfony\\Component\\VarDumper\\Test\\VarDumperTestTrait` was
+    introduced in Symfony 2.7.
+
+The VarDumper component provides
+:class:`a trait <Symfony\\Component\\VarDumper\\Test\\VarDumperTestTrait>`
+that can help writing some of your tests for PHPUnit.
+You can use it by importing it into your test classes::
+
+    class YourTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
+    {
+        use \Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Test\VarDumperTestTrait;
+
+        // ...
+    }
+
+This will provide you with two new assertions:
+
+:method:`Symfony\\Component\\VarDumper\\Test\\VarDumperTestTrait::assertDumpEquals`
+    verifies that the dump of the variable given as the second argument matches
+    the expected dump provided as a string in the first argument.
+
+:method:`Symfony\\Component\\VarDumper\\Test\\VarDumperTestTrait::assertDumpMatchesFormat`
+    is like the previous method but accepts placeholders in the expected dump,
+    based on the ``assertStringMatchesFormat`` method provided by PHPUnit.
+
+Example::
+
+    class ExampleTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
+    {
+        use \Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Test\VarDumperTestTrait;
+
+        public function testWithDumpEquals()
+        {
+            $testedVar = array(123, 'foo');
+
+            $expectedDump = <<<EOTXT
+    array:2 [
+      0 => 123
+      1 => "foo"
+    ]
+    EOTXT;
+
+            $this->assertDumpEquals($expectedDump, $testedVar);
+        }
+    }
+
+.. tip::
+
+    If you still use PHP 5.3, you can extend the
+    :class:`Symfony\\Component\\VarDumper\\Test\\VarDumperTestClass` instead.
+
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