unit testing and Static methods

Question

Reading up and picking up on unit testing, trying to make sense of the following post on that explains the hardships of static function calls.

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Answer 1

I do not see any problem when testing static methods (at least none that doesn't exists in non-static methods).

• Mock objects are passed to classes under test using dependency injection.
• Mock static methods can be passed to classes under test using a suitable autoloader or manipulating the include_path.
• Late static binding deals with methods calling static methods in the same class.