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Easily test large chunks of output using snapshots

Apr 26th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

In this video we'll take a look at how large chunks of output can be tested in Mailcoach using snapshots.

Controlling the flow of time in your tests

Apr 19th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Our test-time package makes writing tests, for code that makes its decisions based on the current time, very easy.

Here's how we use the package for some tests in Mailcoach.

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How to Unit Test a Laravel API with the Pest Framework

Mar 30th 2021 – www.twilio.com - submitted by Nuno Maduro

In this tutorial, we’ll be looking at how to get started using Pest in a Laravel project. Using the test-driven approach, we’ll be building a simple to-do application that allows you to create, edit, update and delete tasks.

Setup MailHog with Laravel Valet

Feb 8th 2021 – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler

Testing emails can be a pain. Luckily, there are plenty of tools out there that can make the process a lot easier. Let me show you how to setup MailHog, a local development tool for testing emails.

Making our Laravel test suite in Oh Dear ready for parallel testing

Feb 1st 2021 – ohdear.app

Using the new parallel testing feature that recently landed in Laravel, we managed to run the Oh Dear testsuite about four times faster.

A mail driver to quickly preview mail in Laravel apps

Jan 28th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

Using our laravel-mail-preview package, you can quickly display mails that are sent by your Laravel application in your browser.

Today, we've released v5 of the package. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.

Contract Tests

Jan 27th 2021 – www.kai-sassnowski.com

In this post, Kai takes a look at how you can write tests to ensure consistent behavior across all implementations of an interface.

Configuration precedence when testing Laravel

Jan 24th 2021 – jasonmccreary.me

Here's how Laravel loads config values.

Finding Slow Tests in PHPUnit 9

Jan 21st 2021 – www.aaronsaray.com

When your unit test suite gets larger, it can take quite a long time. One of the many ways to speed this up is to hunt down and fix slow tests. Let’s use PHPUnit’s test listeners to do just that.

Moving PHP and Laravel tests from Travis CI to GitHub Actions

Dec 8th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

Earlier this year, Travis CI announced a new pricing model that effectively ends the generous open-source offering they had for many years. It seems that, even though there were some plans to provide free resources for OSS projects in the future, all activity for OSS projects has stopped.

At our company, we create a lot of open-source projects and packages. Beginning 2020, we already moved most of our stuff to GitHub actions.

Sure, you can read the GitHub actions docs to start learning the possibilities, but in my experience, it might be better to see some examples of practical uses cases. Here are some interesting links that might help you get started with GitHub actions.

How the Pest PhpStorm Plugin Will Improve Your Testing Workflow

Oct 29th 2020 – blog.jetbrains.com - submitted by Nuno Maduro

Users of Pest will be happy to know there's now a nice plugin to improves integration in PhpStorm.

How to run over 30k tests in under 5 minutes

Oct 9th 2020 – blog.mollie.com

Paratest is an extension on top of PhpUnit that adds support for parallel testing. For our unit tests, we could just add Paratest and it works without any configuration!

Compiling and test driving PHP 8

Oct 2nd 2020

In this stream, my colleague Brent and I download the source of PHP 8 RC1, and test some of PHP 8's cool new features.

Brent and I are working on Front Line PHP, an ebook on cutting edge tactics in PHP 8, accompanied by videos and practical examples. Subscribe to our mailing list to get updates around this project.

Nested States in Laravel 8 Database Factories

Sep 18th 2020 – stefanzweifel.io - submitted by Stefan Zweifel

A quick intro on how to use states for "nested" Database Factories. The examples covers the Models created by laravel/cashier-paddle package.

Faking Laravel's current date in Cypress end-to-end tests

Sep 10th 2020 – johnbraun.blog - submitted by John Braun

When writing an end-to-end test, it is tricky to force the application to use a certain (fake) date. In this post, John Braun shares his approach using a custom middleware to be able to write Cypress tests while your application state uses a specific (fake) date.

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