diff --git a/tests/php-unit-tests/src/BaseTestCase/ItopTestCase.php b/tests/php-unit-tests/src/BaseTestCase/ItopTestCase.php
index 2ff905b19..0cd14a5c2 100644
--- a/tests/php-unit-tests/src/BaseTestCase/ItopTestCase.php
+++ b/tests/php-unit-tests/src/BaseTestCase/ItopTestCase.php
@@ -730,6 +730,18 @@ abstract class ItopTestCase extends KernelTestCase
 		return $this->CallUrl($sUrl, $aPostFields, $aCurlOptions, $bXDebugEnabled);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Return a temporary file path. that will be cleaned up by tearDown()
+	 * @return string: temporary file path
+	 */
+	public function GetTemporaryFilePath(string $sPrefix = "test"): string
+	{
+
+		$sPath = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), $sPrefix);
+		$this->aFileToClean[] = $sPath;
+		return $sPath;
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * @param $sXML
 	 *