Cool Laravel Testing Techniques original
In this stream, Brent and I showcase some cool techniques we use in our test suites.
The benefits of writing tests
I've been creating web applications for over 15 years now. It's only in the last five years that I've learned how to test an application automatically. I can safely say that there is no other technique that has improved the quality of my code more.
Let's go over what a test is and all the benefits it provides.
Read more [testing-laravel.com]
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How to test middleware in Laravel
In this video, which is part of the Testing Laravel video course, I explain to cool ways to test middleware in Laravel.
In this video, we're using Pest, but you can easily use the techniques in a PHPUnit testsuite as well.
Don't use Mocking libraries
Native PHP functionality and having a good design in the first place provide everything you need to avoid a mocking library.
Read more [peakd.com]
Exploring Pest internals original
In this stream, Pest creator Nuno Maduro explains how his testing tool works under the hood.
If you want to know how to use Pest (or PHPUnit) to test your application code, consider picking up our Testing Laravel video course.
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Don't test constructors
Matthias Noback wrote down some good testing advice.
Read more [matthiasnoback.nl]
Using Laravel's parallel testing inside your package tests
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.
Read more [www.rias.be]
Controlling the flow of time in your tests original
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.
How to Unit Test a Laravel API with the Pest Framework
– 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.
Read more [www.twilio.com]
Setup MailHog with Laravel Valet
– 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.
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
Making our Laravel test suite in Oh Dear ready for parallel testing
Using the new parallel testing feature that recently landed in Laravel, we managed to run the Oh Dear testsuite about four times faster.
Read more [ohdear.app]
A mail driver to quickly preview mail in Laravel apps original
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
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]
Configuration precedence when testing Laravel
Here's how Laravel loads config values.
Read more [jasonmccreary.me]
Finding Slow Tests in PHPUnit 9
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.
Read more [www.aaronsaray.com]
Moving PHP and Laravel tests from Travis CI to GitHub Actions original
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
– 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.
Read more [blog.jetbrains.com]
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]
