diff --git a/api/tests/Traits/AssertionsTrait.php b/api/tests/Traits/AssertionsTrait.php
index 0f473d11..4d499232 100644
--- a/api/tests/Traits/AssertionsTrait.php
+++ b/api/tests/Traits/AssertionsTrait.php
@@ -7,21 +7,19 @@
  *
  * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE file that was distributed with this source code.
  */
-use Illuminate\Support\Debug\Dumper;
 use Laravel\Lumen\Testing\AssertionsTrait as BaseAssertionsTrait;
 use Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Cloner\VarCloner;
 use Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Dumper\CliDumper;
 
-
 /**
  * Additional assertions not offered by Lumen's TestCase or PHPUnit.
  */
 trait AssertionsTrait
 {
-
     use BaseAssertionsTrait {
         BaseAssertionsTrait::assertResponseStatus as baseAssertResponseStatus;
     }
+
     /**
      * Assert the response is a JSON array.
      *
diff --git a/api/tests/Traits/AssertionsTraitTest.php b/api/tests/Traits/AssertionsTraitTest.php
index 1a81f780..803e2926 100644
--- a/api/tests/Traits/AssertionsTraitTest.php
+++ b/api/tests/Traits/AssertionsTraitTest.php
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
  */
 class AssertionsTraitTest extends TestCase
 {
-
     /**
      * Test that date formats are valid.
      */
@@ -46,7 +45,7 @@ public function testValidISO8601DateInvalidDateTimeString()
     }
 
     /**
-     * Test that the response status assertion outputs the dumped json response on failure
+     * Test that the response status assertion outputs the dumped json response on failure.
      */
     public function testFailingStatusCodeAssertion()
     {
@@ -55,12 +54,11 @@ public function testFailingStatusCodeAssertion()
         ob_start();
         try {
             $this->assertResponseStatus(200);
-        } catch (\Exception $e){
+        } catch (\Exception $e) {
             $this->assertInstanceOf('PHPUnit_Framework_AssertionFailedError', $e);
         }
         $output = ob_get_clean();
 
-        $this->assertContains("NotFoundHttpException", $output);
+        $this->assertContains('NotFoundHttpException', $output);
     }
-
 }