LogicExeption when running unit tests

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Silverstripe 4.4

Hi All, I get this issue when trying to run a unit test locally (it doesn’t happen on Scrutinizer):

LogicException: getItemPath returned null for SilverStripe\Dev\State\FixtureTestState. Try adding flush=1 to the test run.

/home/morven/Projects/silvercommerce-sandbox/vendor/silverstripe/framework/src/Dev/State/FixtureTestState.php:220
/home/morven/Projects/silvercommerce-sandbox/vendor/silverstripe/framework/src/Dev/State/FixtureTestState.php:195
/home/morven/Projects/silvercommerce-sandbox/vendor/silverstripe/framework/src/Dev/State/FixtureTestState.php:153
/home/morven/Projects/silvercommerce-sandbox/vendor/silverstripe/framework/src/Dev/State/FixtureTestState.php:154
/home/morven/Projects/silvercommerce-sandbox/vendor/silverstripe/framework/src/Dev/State/FixtureTestState.php:164
/home/morven/Projects/silvercommerce-sandbox/vendor/silverstripe/framework/src/Dev/State/FixtureTestState.php:66
/home/morven/Projects/silvercommerce-sandbox/vendor/silverstripe/framework/src/Dev/State/SapphireTestState.php:68
/home/morven/Projects/silvercommerce-sandbox/vendor/silverstripe/framework/src/Dev/SapphireTest.php:274

I still get it after a flush, I am guessing SilverStripe doesn’t like my fixture file? Anyone got any advise how to solve this?

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Had the same problem, I deleted the cache in “silverstripe-cache” manually and the issue went away

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So ran into this problem again recently. After spending an age debugging, turns out that you will get this error when generating fixtures on your unit tests if:

  1. The module you are running tests on does not have phpunit/phpunit in it’s require-dev composer dependencies.
  2. If any of the modules dev dependencies also do not require phpunit/phpunit.

By the look of it, this functionality has been marked as Depreciated, but it is currently still in effect.