Testing

Tips to Speed up Your Phpunit Tests

Having a fast test suite can be just as important as having a fast application. As a developer, getting feedback quickly about the state of your code allows for a much quicker development turnaround. Here we are going to run through some tips you can implement today to make your tests run faster.

Testing Artisan Commands in Laravel 5.7

Laravel 5.7 is going to improve how you write Artisan console commands, with a new API contributed by Laravel employee Mohamed Said. Check out the new testing API as well as links to the documentation!

Laravel TestTools Adds Dusk Support

Laravel Test Tools is a Google Chrome browser extension by Marcel Pociot that enables you to generate Laravel integration tests while using your application. Now you can use the extension to create Dusk test cases!

Testing Length Validation in Laravel

I thought it might help people new to the Laravel framework and testing, to walk through how to test length validation. When I say length validation, I mean the constraints of length that you might want to put on a string field.

For example, let’s say that we wanted to limit the length of a user’s real name to 50 characters; or if we restrict the email address to the database column length of 255. Along with the database constraints, we should add validation constraints to... Read more…

Defense Programming: Anticipating Failures with Tests

When you start working on a new feature, it is wise to plan out not only how it is expected to work, but what happens if something fails. Taking the time up front to anticipate failure is a quality of a great developer. We can use Laravel’s real-time facades to easily mock exceptions for things like HTTP client failure state. Learn how to start using real-time facades to test your implementation’s failure state.

Using Named Routes in a Lumen Test

When writing tests in Lumen, I recently discovered that the `route()` helper doesn’t work with tests out-of-the-box. I prefer to define named routes and make requests against them in my tests. In this post, learn how to bootstrap the request instance in order to use named routes in your Lumen tests.

Continuous Testing Dashboard for Laravel

Tests Watcher is a continuous testing dashboard made with Laravel by Antonio Carlos Ribeiro. According to the author, think of it as “Laravel Horizon for all of your tests.” It supports PHPUnit, Laravel Dusk, PhpSpec, Behat, Atoum, and any test framework executed in the terminal. This project isn’t only for PHP, you could integrate this dashboard with Jest or Rake tests, for example.

The Official Unit Testing Utility Library for Vue.js Is Now Available

Vue.js now has an official unit testing library for testing Vue applications. It provides methods for unit testing your components. A 1.0 beta version shipped Monday, as well as an official guide to help you get started with standard tips, using test runners, and testing components which use Vuex (centralized state management for Vue).

Testing Laravel Middleware with HTTP Tests

Writing HTTP tests in Laravel is so easy and convenient, and I find myself doing more testing at this level. In this post, I’d like to demonstrate a practical example of testing a middleware using HTTP tests.

Testing With PhpSpec

Learn how to start unit testing with the SpecBDD process through PhpSpec