Recently, we received a question on Twitter asking about how PhpStorm handles type inference when working with mocking frameworks. Imagine having the following two classes:
When writing a unit test for ClassA, it’s very easy to mock ClassB using PHPUnit’s mocking capabilities. By mocking ClassB, you can mold an instance of ClassB and add additional validations on it without having to modify the code for ClassB. For example, you might want to validate that there’s only one call being made to ClassB’s bar() method.
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