PHPackages                             nyholm/nsa - PHPackages - PHPackages  [Skip to content](#main-content)[PHPackages](/)[Directory](/)[Categories](/categories)[Trending](/trending)[Leaderboard](/leaderboard)[Changelog](/changelog)[Analyze](/analyze)[Collections](/collections)[Log in](/login)[Sign up](/register)

1. [Directory](/)
2. /
3. [Testing & Quality](/categories/testing)
4. /
5. nyholm/nsa

ActiveLibrary[Testing & Quality](/categories/testing)

nyholm/nsa
==========

See everything and do whatever you want. No privacy rule will stop us. Used in tests, debugging and fixtures to access properties and methods.

1.4.0(2mo ago)2286.0M↓15.1%1120MITPHPPHP >=7.1CI failing

Since Aug 6Pushed 2mo ago5 watchersCompare

[ Source](https://github.com/Nyholm/NSA)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/nyholm/nsa)[ Docs](https://tnyholm.se)[ GitHub Sponsors](https://github.com/nyholm)[ RSS](/packages/nyholm-nsa/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 1mo ago

READMEChangelog (8)Dependencies (4)Versions (9)Used By (20)

NSA; See and do whatever you want. Great for writing tests
==========================================================

[](#nsa-see-and-do-whatever-you-want-great-for-writing-tests)

[![Latest Version](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/8133ea51d42816b9511bfb151ba14ea5deb153fa07cb9ece4dae952e32ac3a34/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f6769746875622f72656c656173652f4e79686f6c6d2f4e53412e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](https://github.com/Nyholm/NSA/releases)[![Software License](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/55c0218c8f8009f06ad4ddae837ddd05301481fcf0dff8e0ed9dadda8780713e/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f62616467652f6c6963656e73652d4d49542d627269676874677265656e2e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](LICENSE)[![Tests](https://github.com/Nyholm/NSA/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/Nyholm/NSA/actions/workflows/ci.yml)[![Code Coverage](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/a4d32fe4d70e3bbcdb6504fd1b7b1790c1b9c0ffe6844013bc32b347c5f5cd91/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f7363727574696e697a65722f636f7665726167652f672f4e79686f6c6d2f4e53412e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](https://scrutinizer-ci.com/g/Nyholm/NSA)[![Quality Score](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/b94860b0b31723cd2b45e0f0a0a9175235c80f29c5ea2971528132885ed625d6/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f7363727574696e697a65722f672f4e79686f6c6d2f4e53412e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](https://scrutinizer-ci.com/g/Nyholm/NSA)[![Total Downloads](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/c1b4113f126b44f449bc7efe14532eb58628d6f5b673aa7763f113d77f9c5afe/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f7061636b61676973742f64742f6e79686f6c6d2f6e73612e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](https://packagist.org/packages/nyholm/nsa)

This small class helps you to test your private and protected properties and methods. One could argue that you never should test private methods but sometimes it just makes the test code a lot cleaner and easier to write and understand. This library is all about DX.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
$object = new Dog();

NSA::setProperty($object, 'name', 'Foobar');
$name = NSA::getProperty($object, 'name');
$result = NSA::invokeMethod($object, 'doAction', 'jump', '1 meter');

echo $name; // "Foobar"
echo $result; // "Dog just did 'jump' for 1 meter"

// Access static properties and methods
$age = NSA::getProperty('\Dog', 'age');
echo $age; // 12
```

```
class Dog
{
    private $name = 'unnamed';
    private static $age = 12;

    private function doAction($action, $parameter)
    {
        return sprintf("Dog just did '%s' for %s", $action, $parameter);
    }
}
```

Install
-------

[](#install)

```
$ composer require nyholm/nsa
```

License
-------

[](#license)

The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](LICENSE) for more information.

###  Health Score

64

—

FairBetter than 99% of packages

Maintenance86

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity60

Solid adoption and visibility

Community34

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 74% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~500 days

Recently: every ~526 days

Total

8

Last Release

67d ago

PHP version history (3 changes)1.0.0PHP ^5.3 || ^7.0

1.2.0PHP ^7.1

1.2.1PHP >=7.1

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/401ccc5eea13c60cf807ae982af00e368e2166e2f26d8eb541dcd881a57385bc?d=identicon)[Nyholm](/maintainers/Nyholm)

---

Top Contributors

[![Nyholm](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1275206?v=4)](https://github.com/Nyholm "Nyholm (37 commits)")[![carlos-ea](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5512089?v=4)](https://github.com/carlos-ea "carlos-ea (7 commits)")[![Chris53897](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7104259?v=4)](https://github.com/Chris53897 "Chris53897 (3 commits)")[![andreybolonin](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2576509?v=4)](https://github.com/andreybolonin "andreybolonin (1 commits)")[![ktom](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1516685?v=4)](https://github.com/ktom "ktom (1 commits)")[![xabbuh](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1957048?v=4)](https://github.com/xabbuh "xabbuh (1 commits)")

---

Tags

testFixturedebugreflection

### Embed Badge

![Health badge](/badges/nyholm-nsa/health.svg)

```
[![Health](https://phpackages.com/badges/nyholm-nsa/health.svg)](https://phpackages.com/packages/nyholm-nsa)
```

###  Alternatives

[nelmio/alice

Expressive fixtures generator

2.5k43.4M133](/packages/nelmio-alice)[zenstruck/foundry

A model factory library for creating expressive, auto-completable, on-demand dev/test fixtures with Symfony and Doctrine.

78611.9M97](/packages/zenstruck-foundry)[trappar/alice-generator

Automatically generates alice fixture based on a set of objects

52185.4k1](/packages/trappar-alice-generator)[trappar/alice-generator-bundle

Symfony bundle for generating Alice fixtures from Doctrine entities

45169.6k1](/packages/trappar-alice-generator-bundle)[genesis/behat-sql-extension

SQL/PDO extension that facilitates fixture data creation on the fly for Behat

1179.9k3](/packages/genesis-behat-sql-extension)[adlarge/fixtures-documentation-bundle

Fixtures documentation generator

1018.7k](/packages/adlarge-fixtures-documentation-bundle)

PHPackages © 2026

[Directory](/)[Categories](/categories)[Trending](/trending)[Changelog](/changelog)[Analyze](/analyze)