Drying up test coverage using model scope events
– devonmather.dev - submitted by Devon Mather
Let's explore the option of firing events on model scopes to add some glue between our feature tests and our unit tests.
Read more [devonmather.dev]
Invading private properties and methods in PHP
Last week, Caleb tweeted about a nifty function called invade - that he had made to easily work with private properties and methods.
😈 Whatcha think of my new favorite helper method?
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) February 11, 2022
That property/method protected or private? No problemoooo 🔓 pic.twitter.com/HqMXKKpRsJ
He added that invade function to Livewire. Because I could see myself using this in non-Laravel projects, I packaged up the function in a new package called spatie/invade.
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The Laracon Summer 2021 videos have been released.
Last year, Laracon held another online edition in the summer. All of the videos are now publicly viewable. You'll find them in this playlist on YouTube.
I had the honour of doing a short talk on snapshot testing in PHP, which you can watch below.
Testing Laravel Environment Checks
Here's how Luke Downing goes about testing environment specific things.
Read more [downing.tech]
Simulate production in your Laravel tests
In this video, Michael steps a natural approache on how to test environment specific functionality.
A bash function to run tests for both PHPUnit and Pest original
I've used this little bash alias for many years to quickly run the tests inside of a project.
alias p="vendor/bin/phpunit"
With this alias in place, I can run the tests by typing "p" on the CLI. Nice!
For a long time, everything was great! But then, Pest appeared on the scene. It's an alternative test runner for PHP with a high focus on developer experience.
How to test that an Eloquent model actually exists original
In your tests, you might have used assertDatabaseHas to make sure that a model actual is persisted.
Faking HTTP requests in Laravel original
Have you ever had to write an API integration from scratch? Where you're managing the HTTP calls yourself instead of being able to rely on third-party packages?
The benefits of testing (video)
In this video, which is part of the Testing Laravel video course, I explain the benefits of testing.
Read more [spatie.be]
Test-driving complex features with Laravel & Pest
- submitted by Mateus Guimarães
Mateus Guimaraes show a couple of neat tests powered by Pest.
Three types of mocks original
Mocking, faking; these might sound like intimidating words if you don't know what they are about, but once you do, you'll be able to improve your testing skills significantly.
Part of "the art of testing" is being able to test code in some level of isolation to make sure a test suite is trustworthy and versatile. These topics are so important that we actually made five or six videos on them in our Testing Laravel course.
In this post, I want to share three ways how you can deal with mocking and faking. Let's dive in!
Using Factory sequences in Laravel original
One of the things I really like about modern Laravel projects, are the new model factories introduced in Laravel 8.
Asserting valid and invalid requests in Laravel original
Testing a Laravel project is one of the most pleasant experiences I've ever had: there's a clean testing API, a very powerful layer added on top of testing frameworks; all while keeping the simplicity and eloquence you'd expect from a Laravel project.
Laravel Worldwide Meetup #10: A Little Bit of Lambda & Pest To Perfection original
This edition of the meetup features those two excellent talks:
- A Little Bit of Lambda (by Aaron Francis)
- Pest to Perfection (by Luke Downing)
Declaring Expectations Against Array Items in Pest
– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
Let's look at how we can use Pest's Expectation API with array items.
Want to learn more about testing and/or Pest? Check out Testing Laravel
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
How to convert a PHPUnit Testsuite to Pest original
While recording videos for the Testing Laravel video course, I became a big fan of Pest, a test runner that tries to optimize the developer experience. I'm now using Pest as the default for testing new packages and projects.
I've also converted a couple of existing testsuites from PHPUnit to Pest. Luckily, this is a very easy process. In this video I'll show you how to get started. You'll see that it only takes a couple of minutes.
Building a PHPUnit to Pest Converter in a week
Jason McCreary explains why and how he created his cool Pest converter
Read more [jasonmccreary.me]
Fun with PHPUnit Data Providers
Data providers are a PHPUnit feature (and many testing frameworks have an equivalent) that lets you run a single test method multiple times but with different data. Larry Garflied shows some cool things you can do with them.
Read more [peakd.com]
Source diving Pest Parallel Testing original
In this stream, Luke Downing shows us around in the source code of Pest parallel plugin he created.
How to test a form in a Laravel app original
In this video, my colleague Brent explains a good way to test a form in a Laravel app.
This video is part of our new premium video course Testing Laravel.
