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I have a nested structure of test cases like this:

ControllersTestCase -> ControllerTest

ControllersTestCase -> WidgetTestCase -> WidgetTest

OtherTestCase -> OtherTest

When I run tests I want to exclude all tests that extend ControllersTestCase.

I've tried to add @group annotation to the ControllersTestCase like this

/**
 * @group controllers
 */
class ControllerTestCase extends \Zend_Test_PHPUnit_ControllerTestCase

For this case I want all Widget tests to be excluded as well.

When I run phpunit --exclude-group controllers tests are still executed.

I have many tests under ControllerTestCase so it is the last option to visit all of them and add @group to each of them.

So what can I do to exclude all tests that inherit from ControllersTestCase?

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A bit on PHPDoc inheritance for classes

Perhaps the simplest of all elements, because a DocBlock for a class makes full use of the object-oriented principles that PHP offers and inherits the following information from the superclass (unless overridden):

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Excluding tests with PHPUnit

Three ways to do this:

  • Use that @group PHPDoc tags (but that's a lot of work)
  • Use <exclude> tags in phpunit.xml and specify the paths to exclude there
  • Use martTestAsSkipped call inside setUp method of the class you want to start skipping tests from. All the child classes will inherit it. (This is probably your bet here, though using xml configuration file is more clean and agile. The latter may be a pain though, with specifying those paths)
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Thanks for the response. At the end I've created tests suit where I've included/excluded files I needed. Luckily they were more or less in the same folder.

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