PHPUnit: How do I create a function to be called once for all the tests in a class?

Question

I have a PHPUnit test case class (consisting of some test functions). I would like to write a oneTimeSetUp() function to be called once for all my tests in the clas

Answer 1

Take a look at setUpBeforeClass() from section 6 of the PHPUnit documentation.

For the one time tearDown you should use tearDownAfterClass();.

Both this methods should be defined in your class as static methods.