1. in symfony find composer.json and add phpunit/phpunit which can be found in https://packagist.org/packages/phpunit/phpunit
{
"require-dev": {
"phpunit/phpunit": "3.7.*"
}
}
2. run command composer update
3. change the path by command line: PATH="~/.composer/vendor/bin:/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.19/bin:$PATH"
now we can type "phpunit --version" to test.
install it
$ wget https://phar.phpunit.de/phpunit.phar
$ chmod +x phpunit.phar
$ mv phpunit.phar /usr/local/bin/phpunit