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Deprecated usage of data provider since PHPUnit 10

Reports the references to functions/methods in the @dataProvider PHPDoc tag that are resolved to non-static or non-public methods. Usage of these methods as PHPUnit data providers is deprecated starting from PHPUnit 10.

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.

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

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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 PhpUnitDeprecatedDataProviderSignatureInspection

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