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Allow defining a target PHPUnit version

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
php
Domain
testing-qa

Research direction

Start by reviewing the linked commit and the existing PHPUnit-version checks in this repository. Determine how a configured target version could be distinguished from the PHPUnit version actually running; done means rules such as the non-static data-provider check can be enabled for a future version while tests still run on an older PHPUnit release.

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Description

For large codebases (I'm looking into Drupal), it would be good to be able to define a target PHPUnit version, so that checks for later versions could be anticipated while still running previous PHPUnit versions. This would allow to do the prep work in batches - you baseline whatever is expected to be changed for the new version and break down the cleanup in multiple steps.

Example: https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan-phpunit/commit/cd9c6938f8bbfcb6da3ed5a3c7ea60873825d088 will report non-static data providers only when PHPUnit 10 is running. But we might want to have the rule enabled while the test codebase is still running PHPUnit 9.

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