Force Exclude files from PHPUnit Code Coverage

Question

Is it possible to forcefully exclude a folder from PHPUnit\'s code coverage?

Problem I\'ve got is, that I have a Symfony 1.4 project, which has folders at ./lib/ve

Answer 1

These answers all seem to apply to older versions of PHPUnit

I was running PHPUnit 5.7.23 and had issues getting files included and excluded for phpunit. The syntax seems to have changed substantially and is only partially backward compatible. I had a complex requirement where i needed to also included & excluded separate directories for code coverage (its a legacy system).

Here is what I required in phpunit.xml:

    
        ./tests

        ./tests/blah/excluded_file_from_tests1.php
        ./tests/blah/excluded_file_from_tests2.php
        ./tests/blah/excluded_file_from_tests3.php
    


    
        ./common/lib/included_directory
        
            ./common/lib/included_directory/core/blah/excluded_directory
        
    

So:

• Under I'm including ./tests directory
• But, under .tests i wanted to exclude a set of files excluded_file_from_testsX.php
• Then, i wanted to whitelist a directory ./common/lib/included_directory
• But, under that included directory below a few levels is a directory i also wanted to exclude (./common/lib/included_directory/core/blah/excluded_directory).

So this seemed to work well when run via phpunit --coverage-html build/coverage