How to propagate setUp and tearDown across all tests in phpUnit?

I have the following tests / folder:

tests /
    ClassOne.test.php
    ClassTwo.test.php
    ClassThree.test.php

I need to copy the following methods setUp()

and tearDown()

into each of these files:

    public function setUp ()
    {
        $ this-> dbTestData ();
    }

    public function tearDown ()
    {
        $ this-> dbClear ();
    }

    private function dbTestData () {
        // populate the database with a few entries
        Entities \ AutocompleteValue :: create (array ('field_name' => 'testing1', 'entry_value' => 'Aisforapple'));
        Entities \ AutocompleteValue :: create (array ('field_name' => 'testing2', 'entry_value' => 'Bisforball'));
        Entities \ AutocompleteValue :: create (array ('field_name' => 'testing3', 'entry_value' => 'Cisforcat'));
        Entities \ AutocompleteValue :: create (array ('field_name' => 'testing4', 'entry_value' => 'Disfordog'));
    }

    private function dbClear () {
        DB :: table ('autocomplete_values') -> delete ();
    }

I considered writing a separate separate class that contains these methods, require()

this file in each of the test files and propagates from that class instead PHPUnit_Framework_Testcase

. Is there an easier solution for this?

I don't have easy access to phpunit.xml

because my CLI Framework coding tool (Laravel, artisan) handles its creation. Hence, it would be better if there was a solution not related to this file.