When the data provider generates test cases based on some external sources, it might happen that there is no cases to be tested.
As PHPUnit triggers an error when a data provider returns an empty iterable (technically when all providers configured for a test do it, so that the merged result is empty, but most tests don't use multiple data providers), such projects end up doing hacks where they yield a single case in the data provider with special values that the test detects to call markTestSkipped.

Examples:

• async-aws having a test enforcing that modified services include updates to their changelog (a PR might not modify any of the files requiring changelog entries): Skip changelog's test when the dataprovider returns nothing async-aws/aws#1983
• the IntegrationTestCase of Twig has a dedicated test running the "legacy" test cases, where deprecations are ignored. A project running Twig integration tests might not have any legacy tests: https://github.com/twigphp/Twig/blob/d58c8be15ddbda8532df7ba5de283b51dd8939d2/src/Test/IntegrationTestCase.php#L191

It would be great to have a way to opt-out of that error, marking the tests as skipped due to no provided data instead.