Testing!

Laravel comes with:

• PHPUnit - unit testing
• Behat - behaviour-driven development
• Mockery - mocking
• Faker - fake data

Basics

ExampleTest.php extends TestCase.php

To run:

’’’ ./vendor/bin/phpunit ‘’’

• Test names must end with Test
• Methods must start with the name test -or a @test docblock

Environment name: local,staging or production. Can be used in control structures.

.env variables come from phpunit.xml

The Testing Traits

WithoutMiddleware

-disables middleware

DatabaseMigrations

• All migrations are run for each test

DatabaseTransactions

• Use an existing DB
• Rolls back transactions after testing

Application Testing

• extend TestCase

Clicking and Forms

pg275

Mocking

Used to create a class that mimics a real class because real class is too difficult to instantiate.

What next?

Adam Wathan Laracon [https://streamacon.com/video/laracon-us/adam-wathan-test-driven-laravel]

Notes from this:

Walking Skeleton

“Programming by Wishfull Thinking”

• ModelFactories
• $user = factory(User::class)->create();
• make() not create()
• sqllite db inmemory

28:33 findByUsername - unit testing

Laracasts testing stuff