Creating helpers — previous private methods in PHPUnit

[nunomaduro]

Just committed something kind of experimental to the dev-master.

Feature added: The test helper called without any arguments resolves the current test instance.

Use Case 1: Creation of helpers that depend of the current test instance. I think this is dope.

<?php

function actingAs($user)
{
    return test()->actingAs($user);
}

it('has home', function () {
    $user = factory(User::class)->create();

    actingAs($user)->get('/')->assertStatus(200);
});

Use Case 2: Solves some IDE issues ( see #5):

<?php

it('does something', function () {
    test()->assertAuthenticat.. // <- IDE support here.
});

Any thoughts on this? You can try it out doing:

composer require pestphp/pest:dev-master

[fetzi]

I find it's an elegant solution to get the current test case instance 👏

[jkniest]

I personally like this approach a lot. Especially for use case 2. This could also solve some of the issues until a phpstorm plugin is released with autocompletion and static code analysis.