Question/Feature Request: incomplete/skip dataprovider

[jrfnl]

Hi Sebastian, Jeff,

I'm setting up a small number of tests which need to test a pretty large and varied dataset. To keep this manageable, I've set up an abstract class which contains the actual test and a large number of concrete classes which basically only contain the data provider method for that data-subset for use by the test.

For a some of the datasets I haven't actually received/set up any test data yet. I'd like to mark those as 'Incomplete'.
For some others, I know that with the current codebase they will fail, so for the time being (until the code is fixed), I'd like to mark those for 'Skip'.

Is there any way I can do this ? I.e. mark a data provider method as 'Incomplete'/'skip' ?

Smile,
Juliette

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Sample code of the set-up:

<php
// File abstract-class-content-analysis.php
abstract class Content_Analysis extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {
    /**
     * @dataProvider  valid_content
     */
    function testContentAnalysis( $content, $expected) {
        // do some tests
    }
}
?>

<?php
// File ServiceTest.php
include_once( 'abstract-class-content-analysis.php' );

class ServiceTest extends Content_Analysis {

    /**
     * @todo Set up test data
     */
    function valid_content() {
        // Here I would like to mark the data provider as incomplete or for skipping
        return array(
        );
    }
}
?>

[whatthejeff]

Hi, @jrfnl :)

There's actually an open PR for this (see: sebastianbergmann/phpunit#997). It's basically just waiting on @sebastianbergmann's decision since it's kind of a bigger feature. After reading the zf2 tickets linked in the PR, I think it makes sense.

[whatthejeff]

I'll go ahead and close this issue and ping @sebastianbergmann to see if we can get some feedback :)

[jrfnl]

@whatthejeff Oh.. duh... stupid me, posting this in the website repo, not in the PHPUnit repo ;-) Thanks for pointing me to the open issue, will have a read and +1 it.

[whatthejeff]

@jrfnl No problem :)