How to fix the «Call to protected method PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase::getMockForAbstractClass()» issue?

dmitry_fedyuk · November 1, 2016, 9:18pm

For now, Magento 2 uses the outdated 4.1.0 version of PHPUnit.

The PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase::getMockForAbstractClass() method is public in this version:

sebastianbergmann/phpunit/blob/4.1.0/src/Framework/TestCase.php#L1375-L1375


public function getMockForAbstractClass($originalClassName, array $arguments = array(), $mockClassName = '', $callOriginalConstructor = true, $callOriginalClone = true, $callAutoload = true, $mockedMethods = array(), $cloneArguments = false)

The same method is protected in the latest PHPUnit versions (5.x branch):

github.com

sebastianbergmann/phpunit/blob/5.6.2/src/Framework/TestCase.php#L1720-L1720


protected function getMockForAbstractClass($originalClassName, array $arguments = [], $mockClassName = '', $callOriginalConstructor = true, $callOriginalClone = true, $callAutoload = true, $mockedMethods = [], $cloneArguments = false)

So, the «Call to protected method PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase::getMockForAbstractClass()» issue means you are mistakenly using your own PHPUnit package instead of the shipped with Magento 2 (maybe because of your IDE settings).