Laravel Package Tester

Testing Laravel packages it was never so easy.

Motivation

Testing is essential when developing Laravel third-party packages. An issue arises when you need real services from Laravel (like database or queues, for example) because your package may provide migrations or interact with a queue, and more importantly you want your package to behave like a library and not like a Laravel project, mainly because you want to use it in many Laravel projects.

This package addresses this issue by requiring larave/laravel package and providing a TestCase to help you build your PHPUnit tests.

Install

composer require --dev thytanium/tester

This package doesn't offer any service providers, there's no need for auto-discovery or to manually add a service provider in your config/app.php

Usage

In your tests, extend the class Thytanium\Tests\TestCase and you're good to go.

<?php

namespace Tests;

use Thytanium\Tests\TestCase;

class ExampleTest extends TestCase
{
}

Migrations

To run your package's migrations use Thytanium\Tests\DatabaseMigrations trait.

<?php

namespace Tests;

use Thytanium\Tests\DatabaseMigrations;
use Thytanium\Tests\TestCase;

class ExampleTest extends TestCase
{
    use DatabaseMigrations;
}

By default, migrations will be looked up in database/migrations from your package root directory. You can change the default migrations path with the MIGRATIONS_PATH envvar.

Testing

It's weird to test a package aimed to testing. And actually there isn't much to test that isn't already tested in Laravel.

Contributing

Please feel free to notify issues and send PR to improve this package.