[2] Though the lime testing framework is built for testing within Symfony, lime is contained within a single PHP file and has no dependency on Symfony or any other library.

[1][2] The alpha version of lime 2.0 was announced on November 10, 2009[3] and is compatible with Symfony 1.2 and lower.

[5] lime unit tests use the lime_test object to make assertions.

The alpha version of lime 2.0 was announced on the Symfony blog on November 10, 2009.

[3] lime 2.0 includes support for xUnit output, source code annotations, parallel execution of tests, automatic generation of mock and stub objects, and operator overloading for data within tests.