Invalid PHPUnit mocking target

Reports the methods and classes that are incorrectly mocked in PHPUnit tests.

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.

PhpUnitInvalidMockingEntityInspection

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

The following entities are reported:

Enums and final classes
private, static, or final methods
Duplicate methods provided in the mocked methods lists via addMethods(), onlyMethods(), setMethods(), and so on.

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 PhpUnitInvalidMockingEntityInspection

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

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, PhpStorm 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2, Qodana for PHP 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025