PHP Testing Summary

Testing Summary

PHP testing with PHPUnit/Pest covers unit tests (isolated logic), feature tests (full HTTP stack), database tests (factories + RefreshDatabase), and mocking (Http::fake, Mail::fake, Queue::fake). Run in CI on every push.

Example

# Complete test workflow
composer require --dev pestphp/pest
./vendor/bin/pest --parallel --coverage --min=70
# CI: run on every PR (GitHub Actions)
- run: ./vendor/bin/pest --parallel --ci
# Key patterns summary:
# Unit test    → TestCase, no DB, mock dependencies
# Feature test → RefreshDatabase, actingAs, postJson
# Data-driven  → it()->with(dataset)
# Fakes        → Http::fake(), Mail::fake(), Event::fake()

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A test suite that runs in under 30 seconds gets run — a slow suite gets skipped.

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