Testing is a critical part of software development, ensuring that applications behave as expected. Laravel, known for its elegant syntax and developer-friendly features, has been paired beautifully with Pest, an innovative testing framework for PHP. Here’s how to leverage Pest for writing tests in Laravel.
Why Pest?
Pest brings some delightful features to the table:
- Fluent Syntax: Write tests that are readable like natural language.
- Higher Order Functions: Simplifies the process of setting up and tearing down test environments.
- Built-in Expectations: Comes with sensible default assertions.
Installing Pest
To begin, you need to install Pest in your Laravel application. Here are the steps:
Add Pest to your project:
composer require pestphp/pest-plugin-laravel --devvendor/bin/pest --initThis command will create the necessary configuration files for Pest within your Laravel project