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Deprecated @covers/@uses by access modifier annotation

Reports the @covers and @uses PHPUnit doc tags that are using ClassName::<*>. Such annotations won't be supported in PHPUnit 10 and later.

Locating this inspection

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Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

PhpUnitCoversByAccessModifierIsDeprecatedInspection
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | PHP | PHPUnit

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection PhpUnitCoversByAccessModifierIsDeprecatedInspection

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Last modified: 18 September 2025