You can setup this sample manually or use Vagrant to automatically set up a development environment for you.

• Clone repo
• Create your .env file from the example file: cp .env.testing .env
• Install composer dependencies: composer install
• Create databases by creating the following files:
  • storage/database.sqlite
  • storage/testing.sqlite
• Run the following commands:
  • php artisan migrate
  • php artisan migrate --database=sqlite_testing
• Server: run php -S localhost:8000 -t public
• Browse to localhost:8000/posts

• Clone repo
• Cd into the cloned directory
• Install git submodules: git submodule update --init --recursive
  • you can also add the --recursive flag to the git clone command to skip this step
• Run vagrant up

To SSH into the machine to run your tests, run vagrant ssh. You can access the app on the guest VM under http://192.168.10.10/.

Run Codeception, installed via Composer

./vendor/bin/codecept build
./vendor/bin/codecept run

Please check out some good test examples provided.

Demonstrates testing of CRUD application with

• PageObjects
• authentication (by user, credentials, http auth)
• usage of session variables
• routes
• creating and checking records in database
• testing of form errors

Demonstrates functional testing of API using REST and Laravel5 modules connected, with

• partial json inclusion in response
• GET/POST/PUT/DELETE requests
• check changes inside database