How do you test static methods?

Question

PHP

I came across an article on testing static methods via Mock or Stub
https://sebastian-bergmann.de/archives/883-Stubbin... but it deals with the case for PhpUnit 3.5. Accordingly, it does not work in 4.5.
I would like to hear how you test static methods?

Answer 1

How do you test static methods?

No way. If you have something inside a static method that needs to be covered by tests, then something went wrong. Usually there is extremely primitive logic, call the constructor with the necessary parameters at the level, etc.
In your own question, you are interested in how to mock static methods. And here the answer is no way:
There is really all sorts of mokeri, etc.

Answer 2

Depends on your architecture, I use a "wrapper" class with an overload of the desired method (I use the same trick to change the call of the functions of the parent class)
Something like this:

class A { // "родной" класс
  static function static_call ()
  {
    echo 'static_call a';
  }
}

class B extends A{ // "обертка" для тестирования
  static function static_call ()
  {
    echo 'static_call b';
  }
}