I have following, very simple, XML config for PHPUnit:
The phpunit documentation is a bit minimalistic when it comes to exclusion in a testsuite. Apparently, only entire directories can be excluded but not individual files. I would be very happy to be proven wrong. The workaround seems to be using the @group feature as posted above by Alister Bulman.
It's kind of a pain needing to tag every single test in those test suites I'd like to keep.