Laravel Testing Tutorial: Getting Started with PHPUnit and Pest

Learn automated testing in Laravel. This step-by-step guide covers PHPUnit and Pest to help you write robust unit and feature tests for reliable code.

Manually clicking through every page after each change doesn't scale. Automated tests let you verify your application works correctly in seconds, every time you make a change. Laravel ships with excellent testing support built in. PHPUnit vs Pest Laravel supports two testing frameworks out of the box: PHPUnit – the traditional, class-based testing framework Pest – a newer, more readable syntax built on top of PHPUnit Both work identically under the hood — Pest is just friendlier for beginners. New Laravel projects let you choose during installation. Types of Tests Unit tests – test a single piece of logic in isolation (e.g., a method on a class) Feature tests – test a full HTTP request/response cycle (e.g., visiting a route, submitting a form) As a beginner, you'll write mostly feature tests. Creating a Test php artisan make:test ProductTest This creates tests/Feature/ProductTest.php ...

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