Coming from Rails, I know that DRY (don't repeat yourself) is a virtue. In my Symfony PHP project, I was faced with copy-pasting a hundred lines in order to test a bunch of methods in PHPUnit. So, I wrote a quick wrapper to take in the arguments as minimally as possible instead of cluttering up the code with tons of duplicate syntax: https://gist.github.com/zyphlar/c959b2d66bce1c10c637