Exclude a pattern from code coverage?

Question

As far as I understand one can exclude files and directories from code coverage by name but is it possible to exclude by matching a pattern ?

I ask this because I don't want to mention the path to all my view sub-folders one by one in my phpunit.xml. Something like <exclude>*/view</exclude> perhaps ? By this I mean "exclude all view folders wherever you reach them".

Answer 1

Yes, you can specify file patterns to exclude from Code Coverage. Here is a sample of one of my PHPUnit.xml.dist files.

<!-- Add files not covered with tests into Code Coverage Analysis -->
<filter>
    <whitelist processUncoveredFilesFromWhitelist="true">
        <directory suffix=".class">.</directory>
        <directory suffix=".fn">.</directory>
        <directory suffix=".php">.</directory>
        <exclude>
            <directory>ExternalLibraries</directory>
        </exclude>
    </whitelist>
</filter>

The PHPUnit Manual for Code Coverage and then the Including/Excluding files for Code Coverage sections of the manual will show you additional options to specify the file patterns by directory or name.