README

Kahlan suite for testing Laravel application providing intuitive kahlan (jasmine based) describe-it syntax with Laravel functional testing goodies.

See usage example on https://github.com/jarektkaczyk/kahlan-driven-laravel

Why I should use the package & how it works?

Take a look at the example spec

First use in 3 steps

1. Add to your project

   composer require --dev sofa/laravel-kahlan:"~5.4"
   

2. Add this line to your kahlan config file (create it if necessary):

   /*  /path/to/your/app/kahlan-config.php  */
   <?php
   
   Sofa\LaravelKahlan\Env::bootstrap($this);

3. Create your first spec in /spec folder, for example /spec/AppSpec.php and run test suite with vendor/bin/kahlan. Working example can be found on https://github.com/jarektkaczyk/kahlan-driven-laravel

   /*  /path/to/your/app/spec/AppSpec.php  */
   <?php
   
   describe('My awesome Kahlan driven Laravel app', function () {
       it("provides the same testing API as Laravel's own TestCase", function () {
           $this->laravel->get('/')
                         ->assertSee('Laravel 5')
                         ->assertStatus(200);
       });
   }

Optional stuff

• Should you need to customize .env variables for the test suite, you have 2 options:

  • In the .env.kahlan file for persistent variables

  • At runtime:

    /path/to/app$ vendor/bin/kahlan -env=DB_CONNECTION=sqlite,MAIL_DRIVER=log
    

• In your specs you can use all the kahlan features, as well as Laravel testing sugar:

  • helpers: app(), event() etc
  • Application methods $this->app->method() or $this->laravel->method()
  • Laravel TestCase features, eg. $this->laravel->get('/')->assertResponseOk()
  • Application instance as either of: $this->app === $this->laravel->app === app()

• For tests that don't require Laravel there's --no-laravel cli option, since booting up the application for each test has huge impact on performance:

  /path/to/app$ vendor/bin/kahlan --spec=spec/unit --no-laravel
  

  Alternatively you can provide NO_LARAVEL=true in .env/.env.kahlan file, then you would enable laravel only when necessary:

  /path/to/app$ vendor/bin/kahlan --spec=spec/functional --no-laravel=false
  

#Happy coding!