Posts Tagged “testing”

PHP package Laravel Dusk (initially released in April 2018) allows Laravel Framework applications to run browser tests with minimal configuration. The target browser can be configured but out-of-the-box it is setup to run tests in Google Chrome via Chromedriver. Well what about other web browsers?

Attempting to escape the far-reaching tentacles of surveillance capital, last year I uninstalled Chrome and replaced it with Mozilla Firefox and DuckDuckGo. But I still wished to locally run browsers tests on Laravel apps. Thankfully W3C’s WebDriver recommendation in June 2018 provided a clear path for other browsers to add automated testing. Geckodriver for Gecko-based browsers (including Firefox) has been stable since late 2019 so a Laravel Dusk integration is actually very easy now.

Testing stateful API endpoints in Laravel, you may come across this exception message:

BadMethodCallException: Method Mockery_1_Illuminate_Cache_CacheManager::store() does not exist on this mock object

In the official documentation, the facade service mock example covers Cache::shouldReceive() but there are potential limitations. Generally APIs are stateless, so developers are less likely to hit this roadblock. Here’s a solution to it anyhow!