diff --git a/src/Standards/Generic/Tests/Files/ByteOrderMarkUnitTest.1.inc b/src/Standards/Generic/Tests/Files/ByteOrderMarkUnitTest.1.inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a50b622609
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Standards/Generic/Tests/Files/ByteOrderMarkUnitTest.1.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+<?php
+// File in UTF-8 encoding with byte order mark (BOM) character before the opening PHP tag.
+echo 'foo';
+?>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/Standards/Generic/Tests/Files/ByteOrderMarkUnitTest.2.inc b/src/Standards/Generic/Tests/Files/ByteOrderMarkUnitTest.2.inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6d61f0e1e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Standards/Generic/Tests/Files/ByteOrderMarkUnitTest.2.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+<?php // File in UTF-8 encoding without a byte order mark (BOM) character before the opening PHP tag. ?>
+
+<p>Some HTML</p>
diff --git a/src/Standards/Generic/Tests/Files/ByteOrderMarkUnitTest.3.inc b/src/Standards/Generic/Tests/Files/ByteOrderMarkUnitTest.3.inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ff1e2bf7d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Standards/Generic/Tests/Files/ByteOrderMarkUnitTest.3.inc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+<p>Some HTML at the beginning of an ANSI/iso-8859-1 encoded file without a byte order mark (BOM) character</p>
diff --git a/src/Standards/Generic/Tests/Files/ByteOrderMarkUnitTest.4.inc b/src/Standards/Generic/Tests/Files/ByteOrderMarkUnitTest.4.inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..312974a828
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diff --git a/src/Standards/Generic/Tests/Files/ByteOrderMarkUnitTest.5.inc b/src/Standards/Generic/Tests/Files/ByteOrderMarkUnitTest.5.inc
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diff --git a/src/Standards/Generic/Tests/Files/ByteOrderMarkUnitTest.inc b/src/Standards/Generic/Tests/Files/ByteOrderMarkUnitTest.inc
deleted file mode 100644
index dc3bf59670..0000000000
--- a/src/Standards/Generic/Tests/Files/ByteOrderMarkUnitTest.inc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-echo 'foo';
-?>
diff --git a/src/Standards/Generic/Tests/Files/ByteOrderMarkUnitTest.php b/src/Standards/Generic/Tests/Files/ByteOrderMarkUnitTest.php
index 3d80c618f6..c1c3e292e3 100644
--- a/src/Standards/Generic/Tests/Files/ByteOrderMarkUnitTest.php
+++ b/src/Standards/Generic/Tests/Files/ByteOrderMarkUnitTest.php
@@ -26,11 +26,21 @@ final class ByteOrderMarkUnitTest extends AbstractSniffUnitTest
      * The key of the array should represent the line number and the value
      * should represent the number of errors that should occur on that line.
      *
+     * @param string $testFile The name of the file being tested.
+     *
      * @return array<int, int>
      */
-    public function getErrorList()
+    public function getErrorList($testFile='')
     {
-        return [1 => 1];
+        switch ($testFile) {
+        case 'ByteOrderMarkUnitTest.1.inc':
+        case 'ByteOrderMarkUnitTest.4.inc':
+        case 'ByteOrderMarkUnitTest.5.inc':
+            return [1 => 1];
+
+        default:
+            return [];
+        }
 
     }//end getErrorList()