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Laravel 4 Test Generator

This Laravel 4 package provides a powerful test generator to speed up your development process.

It's based on the facility PHPUnit Skeleton Generator provides and Jeffrey Way's Laravel 4 generators.

The first doesn't work 100% with all Laravel 4 application classes. Usually you need to add some dependency in the class to make it work, even if your project solves it all with the Composer PSR-0 compliant autoloader.

The second, generates a really tiny test class. It doesn't maps all class public methods and let everything in place.

This generator loads the target with and use the PHP Reflection features for reverse engineer all public methods, and provide an enhanced skeleton, including calls for data providers.

Installation

Begin by installing this package through Composer. Edit your project's composer.json file to require davispeixoto/testingtool.

"require": {
    "laravel/framework": "4.*",
    "davispeixoto/laravel-test-generator": "1.0.*"
},
"minimum-stability" : "stable"

Next, update Composer from the Terminal:

composer update

Once this operation completes, the final step is to add the service provider. Open app/config/app.php, and add a new item to the providers array.

'Davispeixoto\TestGenerator\TestGeneratorServiceProvider'

That's it! You're all set to go. Run the artisan command from the Terminal to see the new tests:generate commands.

php artisan

Usage

Use tests:generate when you need to create a new PHPUnit test class. Here's an example:

This will generate a resource controller and a test class app/tests/UserControllerTest.php as follows:

For full usage, I recommend first reading the article Testing Like a Boss in Laravel. There are some performance tuning to be made in the Laravel 4 core TestCase class.

Along with them, to add the data providers functionality. Add to your Laravel composer.json:

"require": {
    "laravel/framework": "4.1.*",
    "davispeixoto/testingtool": "dev-master",
    "keboola/csv" : "dev-master"
},
"minimum-stability" : "dev"

Next, update Composer from the Terminal:

composer update

And finally, let the TestCase class like this:

With these little changes, you can really speed up your testing process for your Laravel application.

License

This Test Generator is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license

Versioning

This project follows the Semantic Versioning