CLI Commander

Testbench 5 & 6 provides an experimental support for command line tool equivalent to artisan command where you can interact directly with the stub Laravel application.

For example instead of refreshing the database on every tests you may now seed the database before running phpunit, using:

./vendor/bin/testbench migrate

you can also execute it using ./vendor/bin/testbench

or, you can setup the application such as installing Passport:

./vendor/bin/testbench passport:install

Both commands allows you to setup the testing environment where before you only able to setup manually on every TestCase::setUp().

In order for the testbench command to understand any required service providers or environment variables to be used when executing the "artisan" command you need to add the following testbench.yaml file on the project root directory.

env:
  - DB_CONNECTION="mysql"
  - DB_USERNAME="homestead"
  - DB_PASSWORD="secret"

providers:
  - Laravel\Passport\PassportServiceProvider

Notes and Considerations

• The command is currently designed to help testing, however you might be able to run other feature to help package development such as running ide-helper:models etc.
• The command wouldn't work for file stubbing as the generated file will be based on the booted Laravel application and not your package directories.
• The command is an experimental feature and will only be likely to be marked as stable in Testbench 7. Please try it out and report back any issues.