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Deprecated exception handling via doc tags

Reports the usages of the following deprecated PHPUnit doc tags:

  • @expectedException

  • @expectedExceptionMessage

  • @expectedExceptionCode

  • @expectedExceptionMessageRegExp

Locating this inspection

By ID

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

PhpUnitExpectedExceptionDocTagIsDeprecatedInspection
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 PhpUnitExpectedExceptionDocTagIsDeprecatedInspection

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