Laravel recently added parallel testing to the framework using the Paratest package which runs PHPUnit in separate parallel processes. Adding support for this in your own package tests is pretty straightforward using orchestral/testbench.
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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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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.
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– 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.
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Using the new parallel testing feature that recently landed in Laravel, we managed to run the Oh Dear testsuite about four times faster.
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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.
In this post, Kai takes a look at how you can write tests to ensure consistent behavior across all implementations of an interface.
Read more [www.kai-sassnowski.com]
Here's how Laravel loads config values.
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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.
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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.
– 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.
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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!
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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.
– 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.
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– 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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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.
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PEST v0.3 features a new expectation API, a brand new PHPStorm plugin, and more.
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Michael Dyrynda explains why and how you should install pcov
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Emma Febre wrote an interesting piece on the pittfals of using snapshots.
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