How to run over 30k tests in under 5 minutes
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!
Read more [blog.mollie.com]
Posts tagged with testing
Compiling and test driving PHP 8
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.
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Nested States in Laravel 8 Database Factories
– 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.
Read more [stefanzweifel.io]
Faking Laravel's current date in Cypress end-to-end tests
– 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.
Read more [johnbraun.blog]
Supporting and testing using multiple Laravel and PHP versions
In this video you'll learn how add support for multiple PHP and Laravel versions, and how to run the tests against all combinations of Laravel and PHP.
Read more [spatie.be]
PEST v0.3 is now released
– nunomaduro.com - submitted by Nuno Maduro
PEST v0.3 features a new expectation API, a brand new PHPStorm plugin, and more.
Read more [nunomaduro.com]
Using pcov instead of XDebug for code coverage
Michael Dyrynda explains why and how you should install pcov
Read more [dyrynda.com.au]
Snapshot through the heart
Emma Febre wrote an interesting piece on the pittfals of using snapshots.
Read more [madewithlove.com]
Meetup time: discovering Laravel Workbench and Exploring Pest 0.2 original
Last week I held an online meetup. My two guests were JMac and Nuno Maduro. 00:00 Welcome 02:00 Exploring Laravel Workbench (JMac) 30:00 Introducing Pest 0.2 (Nuno Maduro) Show links Laravel Shift: https://laravelshift.com Pest: https://pestphp.com
Avoid false positives by utilising magic values in your tests
It can be very hard to spot a false positive within a test. So how do you avoid them?
Read more [timacdonald.me]
How to generate and view code coverage reports in PhpStorm using PHPUnit and Xdebug
In this video, you'll learn how to generate code coverage reports, and how to display them directly in PhpStorm.
This video is part of our Laravel Package Training video course. In that course, you'll learn how to create both framework agnostic and Laravel specific packages. We'll also source dive some popular Spatie packages together, so you can pick up some tricks we apply there.
In defence of mocking frameworks
Dave Marshall replies to a blogpost that Frank De Jonge published recently.
Read more [davedevelopment.co.uk]
Multitenancy in Laravel: Migrations, Testing, and switching tenants
In this video, Mohammed Said shares a nice, clean strategy for multitenancy in Laravel.
Using PEST in Laravel
My buddy Nuno is working on an interesting project to improve the experience of writing tests.
Read more [nunomaduro.com]
Testing Cashier
– driesvints.com - submitted by Dries Vints
Here are three different ways you could test Laravel Cashier.
Read more [driesvints.com]
Testing without mocking frameworks
A must read by Frank de Jonghe on testing.
Read more [blog.frankdejonge.nl]
How to use a MySQL database on GitHub Actions original
Recently we started using GitHub Actions to test all our packages. You can read more about our general setup in this blog post.
For most of the packages, this works great. However, some of our packages, such as Laravel Tags, use JSON functions that are not available in SQLite. Luckily it's straightforward to use a database like MySQL in GitHub Actions.
How to refactor complex if statements original
Have you every come across confusing if statements with complex conditionals such as this? I bet you did!
// please kill me 🤯 if (!(($this->shipping_country == "GB" || (strcmp($this-status, "Valid") !== 0)) {
To me, this is completely unreadable.
In the video below I show how I deal with this situation. Spoiler: add some tests around it and break the conditionals apart.
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Migrating to PHPUnit 9
Sebastian Bergmann, creator of PHPUnit, walks us through some history and design decisions for PHPUnit.
Read more [thephp.cc]
Manage Docker containers using PHP original
Last week, my colleague Ruben and I released a package called spatie/docker, that makes it easy to spin up docker containers and execute commands on them. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce what you can do with it and why we built this.
