Tests on Windows fail with "Syntax error, malformed JSON"

[Marc Würth]

• PHPMD version: 957fe4b
• PHP Version: 7.4.33
• Installation type: composer
• Operating System / Distribution & Version: (Windows 10 / AppVeyor

Current Behavior

There were 2 failures:
1) PHPMD\Renderer\SARIFRendererTest::testRendererCreatesExpectedNumberOfJsonElements
Failed asserting that '{\n    "version": "2.1.0",\n   ...  ]\n}\n' is valid JSON (Syntax error, malformed JSON).
C:\projects\phpmd\src\test\php\PHPMD\AbstractStaticTest.php:188
C:\projects\phpmd\src\test\php\PHPMD\Renderer\SARIFRendererTest.php:78
phpvfscomposer://C:\projects\phpmd\vendor\phpunit\phpunit\phpunit:51
2) PHPMD\Renderer\SARIFRendererTest::testRendererAddsProcessingErrorsToJsonReport
Failed asserting that '{\n    "version": "2.1.0",\n   ...  ]\n}\n' is valid JSON (Syntax error, malformed JSON).
C:\projects\phpmd\src\test\php\PHPMD\AbstractStaticTest.php:188
C:\projects\phpmd\src\test\php\PHPMD\Renderer\SARIFRendererTest.php:119
phpvfscomposer://C:\projects\phpmd\vendor\phpunit\phpunit\phpunit:51
FAILURES!
Tests: 714, Assertions: 943, Failures: 2.
Command exited with code 1

https://ci.appveyor.com/project/phpmd/phpmd/builds/47150788

Reproduced on my local Win 10.

Expected Behavior

Tests should pass on Windows, too.

Steps To Reproduce:

• Checkout with PhpStorm (likely irrelevant)
• Composer Installation through PhpStorm (likely irrelevant)
• composer test (likely irrelevant)

Checks before submitting

Done

[Tobias van Beek]

It did start with merging #865

see: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/phpmd/phpmd/builds/38745268 ( or scroll down in https://ci.appveyor.com/project/phpmd/phpmd/history )

It shows that we didn't have this feedback for a long time 😞