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Published inSep 2016
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Terry Matula
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Terry Matula is a web developer and Laravel advocate based in Austin, TX. He's been a passionate computer enthusiast since he first played Oregon Trail on an Apple//e. He started programming in BASIC at a young age, making simple Scott Adams-like games on a Commodore Vic-20. Since then, he's worked as a developer using Flash/ActionScript, ASP.NET, PHP, and numerous PHP frameworks, with Laravel being his favorite by far. He blogs web development tips and tricks at his website http://terrymatula.com
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Alfred Nutile is an Enterprise Architect and Laravel lead based in Western Massachusetts. He's been working in the industry since the mid 90's. He started in PHP and MySQL back around that time and has worked with Ruby on Rails, Drupal, and Angular along the way. He introduced Laravel into an enterprise web stack, where he is currently contracted at, as Laravel proved itself as an amazing framework to build API's and Angular heavy application. You can read more about him and checkout his blog at http://www.alfrednutile.info/ or follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/alnutile Make sure to checkout the discount LaraCasts is offering those who buy the book! Get a coupon for 50% on your first bill. Make it a yearly subscription and save $43! Coupon Code: LaracastsLovesPackt https://laracasts.com/signup?plan=yearly&coupon=LaracastsLovesPackt.
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Testing your view based route in PHPUnit


Using the above recipe, I was able to make a view right from the route, now I want to test my view and make sure it is doing what is expected. Typically, I would use Behat but in this example, I will use PHPUnit.

Getting ready

If you follow the above recipe, you will have an example page in place. From here we will start with the testing.

How to do it…

Follow the listed steps for testing your view based route:

  1. As usual, make a test:

    >php artisan make:test ExampleViewTest
    
  2. Then, in that file tests/ExampleViewTest.php, I begin to write a test:

  3. Run the test and it passes:

    > phpunit --filter=example_view
    
  4. Now, to see how we can deal with authentication, add this to the route:

  5. And what was a passing test is now failing:

  6. All we have to do is add $this->actingAs():

  7. And we are back to passing. If you are using $this->call() instead of $this->visit() then you can use $this->be() instead:

How it works…

Pretty nice how Laravel brings all of this into PHPUnit...

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Terry Matula

Terry Matula is a web developer and Laravel advocate based in Austin, TX. He's been a passionate computer enthusiast since he first played Oregon Trail on an Apple//e. He started programming in BASIC at a young age, making simple Scott Adams-like games on a Commodore Vic-20. Since then, he's worked as a developer using Flash/ActionScript, ASP.NET, PHP, and numerous PHP frameworks, with Laravel being his favorite by far. He blogs web development tips and tricks at his website http://terrymatula.com
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Alfred Nutile

Alfred Nutile is an Enterprise Architect and Laravel lead based in Western Massachusetts. He's been working in the industry since the mid 90's. He started in PHP and MySQL back around that time and has worked with Ruby on Rails, Drupal, and Angular along the way. He introduced Laravel into an enterprise web stack, where he is currently contracted at, as Laravel proved itself as an amazing framework to build API's and Angular heavy application. You can read more about him and checkout his blog at http://www.alfrednutile.info/ or follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/alnutile Make sure to checkout the discount LaraCasts is offering those who buy the book! Get a coupon for 50% on your first bill. Make it a yearly subscription and save $43! Coupon Code: LaracastsLovesPackt https://laracasts.com/signup?plan=yearly&coupon=LaracastsLovesPackt.
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