sebastianbergmann
More generic matching for at covers annotation
From my learnings of unit testing, the importance is placed on testing the unit of functionality, not individual classes.
With that in mind, I declare an interface and create a testable implementation of that interface. According to PHPUnit, I am to declare the @covers annotation set to that class, and for every class covered. Good so far.
In testing, implementing, and then refactoring my code, I break my implementation class out into smaller 'private' classes (like in Java) that will never be instantiated outside the scope of the covered class. PHPUnit currently requires that I add another @covers annotation for every class I refactor out.
Would it be simpler to declare wildcard patterns like:
@covers \My\Space\MyClass
@covers \My\Space\MyClass\*
The first is the class implementing the interface, the second is the namespace for those pseudo 'private' classes.
In an ideal world, I would love to be able to declare @covers \My\Space\MyClass and it be treated as a class and/or namespace to cover.
No new annotations will be added, no existing annotations will be changed, see #4502 for details. That being said, I am open to the idea of adding metadata support for declaring that a class covers a namespace.
