Phpunit Tips And Tricks

Real time testing

Just when you need a real time testing like npm run watch this is the stuff

https://github.com/spatie/phpunit-watcher

Install:
composer require spatie/phpunit-watcher --dev

Usage :
vendor/bin/phpunit-watcher watch

Running Artisan migrate Fresh after each test

after reading this https://medium.com/helpspace/fresh-database-once-befor-testing-starts-faa2b10dc76f , I tried to make the same steps turns out it didn't work, So I tinkered around and add it in createsApplication an now it works

<?php

namespace Tests;

use Illuminate\Contracts\Console\Kernel;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Artisan;

trait CreatesApplication
{
    /**
     * Creates the application.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Foundation\Application
     */

    protected static $setUpHasRunOnce = false;
    public function createApplication()
    {
        $app = require __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/app.php';
        
        $app->make(Kernel::class)->bootstrap();


        if (!static::$setUpHasRunOnce) {
            Artisan::call('migrate:fresh');
            Artisan::call(
                'db:seed',
                ['--class' => 'DatabaseSeeder']
            );
            static::$setUpHasRunOnce = true;
        }

        return $app;
    }
}

Make the test pretty

vendor/bin/phpunit tests/Unit/  --testdox