Phpunit: Test suite naming conventions

[henrywright]

The manual highlights some conventions:

• The tests for a class MyClass go into a class MyClassTest
• The class MyClassTest live in file MyClassTest.php
• MyClassTest inherits from PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
• Tests are public methods that are named test*

This will result in something like this folder structure:

├── src/
│   ├── classes/
│   │   ├── MyClass.php # Different
│   └── ...
├── tests/
│   ├── testcases/
│   │   ├── MyClassTest.php # Different
│   ├── bootstrap.php
│   └── ...
└── ...

... and this test case:

MyClassTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {
    testMyMethod() {
        // Code here.
    }
}

My question
I'm wondering why the naming used inside the test suite can't mirror the project's source code? For example, file names can match:

├── src/
│   ├── classes/
│   │   ├── MyClass.php # Same
│   └── ...
├── tests/
│   ├── testcases/
│   │   ├── MyClass.php # Same
│   ├── bootstrap.php
│   └── ...
└── ...

And if using PHP > 5.3, namespaces can be used to allow class names to match:

namespace MyProject\MyTests;
MyClass extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase { # The class name MyClass matches the class name used in my project's source. 
    /**
     * @test
     */
    MyMethod() {  The method name MyMethod matches the method name used in my project's source. 
        // Code here.
    }
}

Note the @tests annotation is used so method names can match.

[sebastianbergmann]

This is not a discussion / support forum, sorry.

[henrywright]

:cry: