Best practices to test protected methods with PHPUnit

Question

I found the discussion on Do you test private method informative.

I have decided, that in some classes, I want to have protected methods, but test them. Some of thes

Answer 1

teastburn has the right approach. Even simpler is to call the method directly and return the answer:

class PHPUnitUtil
{
  public static function callMethod($obj, $name, array $args) {
        $class = new \ReflectionClass($obj);
        $method = $class->getMethod($name);
        $method->setAccessible(true);
        return $method->invokeArgs($obj, $args);
    }
}

You can call this simply in your tests by:

$returnVal = PHPUnitUtil::callMethod(
                $this->object,
                '_nameOfProtectedMethod', 
                array($arg1, $arg2)
             );