diff --git a/tests/phpunit/api/v3/SyntaxConformanceTest.php b/tests/phpunit/api/v3/SyntaxConformanceTest.php
index a05b0bdf31186290c4e8a4775bedeb9350b584da..5bcff6511ef926b80e94a36d8cefcca6b79e0ed3 100644
--- a/tests/phpunit/api/v3/SyntaxConformanceTest.php
+++ b/tests/phpunit/api/v3/SyntaxConformanceTest.php
@@ -90,19 +90,19 @@ class api_v3_SyntaxConformanceTest extends CiviUnitTestCase {
 
   public static function entities_get() {
     // all the entities, beside the ones flagged
-    return api_v3_SyntaxConformanceTest::entities(api_v3_SyntaxConformanceTest::toBeSkipped_get(TRUE));
+    return api_v3_SyntaxConformanceTest::entities(static::toBeSkipped_get(TRUE));
   }
 
   public static function entities_create() {
-    return api_v3_SyntaxConformanceTest::entities(api_v3_SyntaxConformanceTest::toBeSkipped_create(TRUE));
+    return api_v3_SyntaxConformanceTest::entities(static::toBeSkipped_create(TRUE));
   }
 
   public static function entities_updatesingle() {
-    return api_v3_SyntaxConformanceTest::entities(api_v3_SyntaxConformanceTest::toBeSkipped_updatesingle(TRUE));
+    return api_v3_SyntaxConformanceTest::entities(static::toBeSkipped_updatesingle(TRUE));
   }
 
   public static function entities_delete() {
-    return api_v3_SyntaxConformanceTest::entities(api_v3_SyntaxConformanceTest::toBeSkipped_delete(TRUE));
+    return api_v3_SyntaxConformanceTest::entities(static::toBeSkipped_delete(TRUE));
   }
 
   public static function toBeSkipped_get($sequential = FALSE) {