A helper method that takes care of passing the protected method out of the class as a public method to be accessible for testing

PHPUnit_protected_method_testing.php

<?php

Class SomeTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {
	
	protected static function getProtectedMethod($name, $class)
	{
		$class = new \ReflectionClass(get_class($class));
		$method = $class->getMethod($name);
		$method->setAccessible(true);
		return $method;
	}
}

// calling
// $classInstance = new MyClass();
// $myProtectedMethod = static::getProtectedMethod('myProtectedMethod', $classInstance);
// $myProtectedMethod->invokeArgs($classInstance, array('arg1', 'arg2'));