Posts tagged with 'testing' - Freek Van der Herten's blog on Laravel, PHP and AI

Posts tagged with testing

Moving PHP and Laravel tests from Travis CI to GitHub Actions original

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.

Supporting and testing using multiple Laravel and PHP versions

Sep 9th 2020 – spatie.be

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.

PEST v0.3 is now released

Sep 4th 2020 – nunomaduro.com - submitted by Nuno Maduro

PEST v0.3 features a new expectation API, a brand new PHPStorm plugin, and more.

Using pcov instead of XDebug for code coverage

Jul 16th 2020 – dyrynda.com.au

Michael Dyrynda explains why and how you should install pcov

Snapshot through the heart

Jul 8th 2020 – madewithlove.com

Emma Febre wrote an interesting piece on the pittfals of using snapshots.

Meetup time: discovering Laravel Workbench and Exploring Pest 0.2 original

Jun 23rd 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

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

Jun 12th 2020 – timacdonald.me

It can be very hard to spot a false positive within a test. So how do you avoid them?

How to generate and view code coverage reports in PhpStorm using PHPUnit and Xdebug

Jun 2nd 2020

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

May 26th 2020 – davedevelopment.co.uk

Dave Marshall replies to a blogpost that Frank De Jonge published recently.

Multitenancy in Laravel: Migrations, Testing, and switching tenants

Apr 30th 2020

In this video, Mohammed Said shares a nice, clean strategy for multitenancy in Laravel.

Using PEST in Laravel

Apr 15th 2020 – nunomaduro.com

My buddy Nuno is working on an interesting project to improve the experience of writing tests.

Testing Cashier

Apr 8th 2020 – driesvints.com - submitted by Dries Vints

Here are three different ways you could test Laravel Cashier.

Testing without mocking frameworks

Mar 24th 2020 – blog.frankdejonge.nl

A must read by Frank de Jonghe on testing.

How to use a MySQL database on GitHub Actions original

Mar 4th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

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

Feb 18th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

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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