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

I suggest following workaround for "Henrik Paul"'s workaround/idea :)

You know names of private methods of your class. For example they are like _add(), _edit(), _delete() etc.

Hence when you want to test it from aspect of unit-testing, just call private methods by prefixing and/or suffixing some common word (for example _addPhpunit) so that when __call() method is called (since method _addPhpunit() doesn't exist) of owner class, you just put necessary code in __call() method to remove prefixed/suffixed word/s (Phpunit) and then to call that deduced private method from there. This is another good use of magic methods.

Try it out.