Povilas Korop – Laravel – PHPUnit Testing for Beginners

Povilas Korop – Laravel – PHPUnit Testing for Beginners

Automated testing is a crucial part of any long-term IT project. But often developers don’t have time for that – budgets and deadlines are tight, and clients want to launch features quickly.

As a result, a lot of developers never actually testing, because they don’t have projects with time/budget to afford this “luxury”. Also it seems that PHPUnit and “100% Test Coverage” are really complicated.

In reality, automated testing is pretty simple – and I will prove it to you in this course.
To testing simple functionality, it’s enough to invest a few hours and you will adapt the mindset, with basic examples.

Throughout this course, we will create a mini-application for Products CRUD, and with every page I will show you different details of automated testing:

– Testing that some text is on the page
– Testing that some data is correctly added/updated/deleted
– Testing that correct validation was actually fired
– Testing that only authenticated users access the data
– etc.

Finally, in the last lesson I will show you a TDD approach to write tests, with test written before the actual application.

So, let’s dive in?

Your Instructor

Povilas Korop
Povilas Korop

I consider myself a Laravel expert. Work with Laravel around 6 years, I also write about it on my Laravel Daily Blog

Active contributor to official Laravel News blog, latest article: 20 Laravel Eloquent Tips and Tricks

Also sharing my thoughts on YouTube channel “Laravel Business”: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTuplgOBi6tJIlesI…

Course Curriculum

List of Lessons (~90 Minutes Total)

Intro: WHY do you need to (automatically) test your code? (2:11)

Our First Test: How PHPUnit works? What is Test and Assertion? (4:45)

Real project “Product List”: Testing that table is (not) empty (5:45)

Database Configuration: RefreshDatabase, Phpunit.xml and .env.testing (7:27)

Be careful with assertSee: test DATA to avoid false positives (3:07)

Unit Tests vs Feature Tests: example of currency converter (9:32)

Factories: How to create many testing records without loops (6:43)

Auth Test: Does user have access to the page? (10:13)

Avoid creating the same data: Private methods or setUp() (4:20)

Testing roles: only Admin can access creating products (6:49)

New Product: testing that record was saved into database (4:17)

Edit Product: Testing correct values in form inputs (3:27)

Update Product: test if validation error is fired correctly (4:47)

Delete Product: test if it’s actually removed from database (3:00)

Testing file uploads: fake storage driver (4:54)

PHPUnit Flags: run only the tests you’re interested in (3:16)

Test Driven Development: simple TDD example (7:28)

Frequently Asked Questions

When does the course and finish?
The course s now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course – you decide when you and when you finish.
How long do I have access to the course?
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What if I am unhappy with the course?
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