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Testing Laravel Applications: Feature Tests, Mocking & Database Factories

01January 31, 2026 · 15 min readTesting

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Testing Laravel Applications: Feature Tests, Mocking

Covers Laravel's HTTP test helpers, Mockery integration, database factory states, and running tests against in-memory SQLite.

Laravel
Testing
Feature Tests
Mockery
Factories

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This filtered archive keeps related Testing posts together so the topic is easier to scan before opening a detailed article.

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Architecture decisionsBoundaries, interfaces, ownership, and long-term code shape.
Performance workQueries, workers, profiling, cache behavior, and production speed.
Debugging practiceTrace failures, isolate causes, and make bugs reproducible.
Security reviewsAuth, inputs, uploads, secrets, headers, and release risk.

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Testing articles

6 articles filed under Testing.

02January 27, 2026 · 17 min readTesting

Pest PHP 3 New Features: Architectural Testing & Mutation

Covers Pest 3's new architectural assertions, built-in mutation testing, how it compares with Infection PHP, and snapshot testing support.

PHP
Pest
Testing
Architecture Testing

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03July 18, 2023 · 15 min readTesting

Automated Testing Pyramid in PHP: Unit, Integration & E2E

Introduces Pest as an expressive PHP testing framework, demonstrates the testing pyramid, and shows parallel test execution.

PHP
Pest
Testing
E2E

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04August 1, 2022 · 17 min readTesting

PHP Static Analysis With PHPStan & Psalm: Catch Bugs

Compares PHPStan and Psalm, covers level configuration, baseline management, custom rules, and CI integration for zero-defect deploys.

PHP
Testing
PHPStan
Psalm

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05September 21, 2021 · 15 min readTesting

Test-Driven Development in PHP: A Practical Workflow

Shows how to embed TDD red-green-refactor cycles into team sprints, configure CI pipelines, and measure coverage regressions.

PHP
PHPUnit
TDD
Testing

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06July 14, 2020 · 14 min readTesting

PHP Unit Testing With PHPUnit: From Zero to 100% Code

Comprehensive tutorial on writing unit, integration, and data-provider tests using PHPUnit, including mocking and assertion best practices.

PHPUnit
PHP
Testing
Code Coverage

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Testing notes with production context.

Production contextArticles focus on live-application problems: slow queries, fragile releases, unclear ownership, failed jobs, admin workflow friction, and code paths that are hard to review.
Implementation detailThe archive favors concrete Laravel and PHP decisions: Eloquent, Blade, queues, Filament, testing, security, structured data, deployment checks, and operational cleanup.
Discovery surfaceEvery listing keeps a stable URL, excerpt, date, reading time, local responsive image, category, tags, RSS entry, sitemap entry, and local search-index data.