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

Observation: whitelisting (the directories you want to be included in the code coverage) makes the phpunit execution of the entire test suite quicker, compared to blacklisting.

    
          /my/project/directory/to/be/covered
          ....
    

Tested with: PHPUnit 4.5.0 and PHP 5.5.9