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.

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

Sponsors:

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• Codeship

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

What is Full Stack Radio?

A podcast for developers interested in building great software products. Every episode, Adam Wathan is joined by a guest to talk about everything from product design and user experience to unit testing and system administration.