markTestIncomplete and markTestSkipped as earlyTerminatingMethodCalls

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
php
Domain
testing, tooling

Research direction

Start by locating the extension code that registers markTestIncomplete and markTestSkipped as earlyTerminatingMethodCalls, then review the related PHPStan behavior. Reproduce a case with code after either PHPUnit call and confirm the current unreachable-statement error. Done means those calls no longer make subsequent code report as unreachable while their intended incomplete or skipped behavior remains supported.

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Description

The extension marks markTestIncomplete and markTestSkipped as earlyTerminatingMethodCalls. The effect is that PHPStan will emit a Unreachable statement - code above always terminates. error for any code after them.

I found that this is not necessary useful. I mean, this error is useful for detecting unexpectedly unreachable statements, but the goal of markTestIncomplete or markTestSkipped, is to make some code unreachable/unexecuted without actually removing it.

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