Episode 72
72: Taylor Otwell - Testing Laravel Applications
In this episode, Adam is joined by Taylor Otwell the creator of Laravel to talk about their approaches to testing Laravel applications.
September 13, 201759m 10s
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Show Notes
Topics include:
- How their approaches have changed over time
- Feature tests vs. unit tests, when to use each
- Testing code that interacts with external services
- Using fakes instead of mocks
- Contract tests
- Testing view data vs. rendered HTML
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Links:
- Test-Driven Laravel, Adam's testing course
- Laravel Horizon test suite
- Laravel Fakes documentation
- "Don't Mock What You Don't Own", Adam's screencast on testing wrappers for external services
- "Writing Your Own Test Doubles", Adam's blog post on using fakes instead of mocks
- "Preventing API Drift with Contract Tests", Adam's screencast on using traits to create contract tests between fake and real implementations
Topics
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