Practical Testing in Laravel

Vahid Azamtarrahian

github repo

https://github.com/azamtav/practical_testing

Unit Testing

• Important, but only tests individual classes
• Laravel Framework already has many
• Many packages already have them inluded
• Testing in isolation

Testing individual units of souce code (in as much isolation as possible)

Integration Testing

• Where do you start?
• Many different ways to do them
• What is the correct way to do them?
• Easy to get lost in the weeds

Testing the code together to make sure it's working as it should

Challenges

Email Testing

Mailtrap

https://mailtrap.io/

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=
MAIL_PASSWORD=
MAIL_API_KEY=
MAIL_INBOX_ID=

Email Testing

Mailcatcher 

 https://mailcatcher.me/

sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
gem install mailcatcher

Email Testing

Mail Test Case

API Testing

• PostMan
• API Test Case Class

Authentication/Authorization Testing

• $this->be()

• $this->beRole()

• Leverage Base Classes to do the same action (DRY)

Writing Own Assertions

Make sure to write the positive and negative assertion

Testing Private Methods

Namespacing Tests

Otherwise, you can load them all using 'Classmap'

Thanks

Vahid Azamtarrahian

@vahidazam

azamtav