Unit test 'non-existent' factory methods

Question

Potentially same question has been asked but differently.

You are testing something in isolation and assume no access to generated folder.

Helper method

 
class HelperClass extends AbstractHelper

    public function __construct(
        Context $context,
        CurrencyFactory $currencyFactory
    ) {
        $this->currencyFactory = $currencyFactory;

    [...]

    /**
     * Format price with symbol
     * @param float $price
     * @param string $symbol
     * @return string
     */
    public function formatPrice(float $price, string $symbol): string
    {
        return $this->currencyFactory
            ->create()
            ->format(
                $price,
                ['symbol' => $symbol],
                false
            );
    }

Unit test

    public function setUp(): void
    {
        $this->currencyMock = $this->createMock(Currency::class);
        $this->currencyMock->expects($this->any())
            ->method('load')
            ->willReturnSelf();

        $this->currencyFactoryMock = $this->getMockBuilder(CurrencyFactory::class)
            ->disableOriginalConstructor()
            ->setMethods(['create'])
            ->getMock();

        $this->currencyFactoryMock->expects($this->any())
            ->method('create')
            ->willReturn($this->currencyMock);

        $this->helper = new HelperClass(
            $this->contextMock,
            $this->currencyFactoryMock
        );
    }

    public function testFormatPrice()
    {
        $this->assertEquals('£2.23', $this->helper->formatPrice((float) 2.2294, '£'));
    }

Error: HelperClass::formatPrice() must be of the type string, null returned

Is there just no way of testing generated classes without them existing?

Update

I've been experimenting on this repo

https://coveralls.io/github/DominicWatts/ReviewReminder

https://github.com/DominicWatts/ReviewReminder

https://github.com/DominicWatts/ReviewReminder/blob/master/Test/Unit/OrderTest.php

You should be able to run my docker unit test over the code with minimal effort

[clone github then in repo root]

docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/code domw/phpunit:7.2 phpunit Test