The included trait provides additional features on top of the existing DatabaseMigrations trait currently included with Laravel:

• Using 'migrate:refresh' instead of the hardcoded 'migrate:fresh' by including a property on your test class

protected $useRefreshMigrations = true;

• Using custom seeders which can be defined separately for each test

protected $seederClass = 'AnotherDatabaseSeeder';

Installation

This package requires that you are using laravel/framework: 5.5.*. Provided this is fulfilled, you can install the helper traits like so:

composer require betapeak/laravel-testing-helper-traits

Usage

You can use the included DatabaseMigrationsWithSeeding trait in place of the existing DatabaseMigrations trait included in Laravel. Like the default trait, it will migrate:fresh the database, but will also seed it with the default DatabaseSeeder class.

namespace Tests;
use BetaPeak\Testing\Traits\DatabaseMigrationsWithSeeding;

class SomeUnitTest extends TestCase
{
    use DatabaseMigrationsWithSeeding;
    

    /** @test */
    public function it_tests_something()
    {
        //Test something
    }
    
}

You can specify a different seeder class like so:

namespace Tests;
use BetaPeak\Testing\Traits\DatabaseMigrationsWithSeeding;

class SomeUnitTest extends TestCase
{
    use DatabaseMigrationsWithSeeding;
    
    protected $seederClass = 'AnotherSeederClass';

    ...
    
}

Finally, if you don't want to use migrate:fresh, you can force the trait to use migrate:refresh like so:

namespace Tests;
use BetaPeak\Testing\Traits\DatabaseMigrationsWithSeeding;

class SomeUnitTest extends TestCase
{
    use DatabaseMigrationsWithSeeding;
    
    protected $useRefreshMigrations = true;

    ...
    
}

More information on using database migrations in tests can be found on Laravel's homepage