August 31, 2021

While testing show laravel views some love

Back in the 4.2 Laravel days, you were able to inspect views with tests more thoroughly with the help of a symphony dom crawler. Unfortunately, this feature was removed in later versions. That's a...

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July 2, 2021

How to test TestJob::dispatchNow in Laravel?

Some time ago, I needed to write a test for Laravel job and I've spent hours searching for solution. Testing Laravel jobs that are queued is straightforward. But how do you test jobs that are...

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April 13, 2021

Amazon SES and how to track Laravel Emails & Notifications

I've been working on a project where the requirement was to send emails via Amazon SES and track deliverability status with webhooks. Not surprisingly, at least for me, the ride wasn't a...

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February 16, 2021

Contract Test

When testing 3rd party API call (dealing with external resources), one of the problems is that those tests are slow. One of the solutions is to use fake classes. On the outside, the fake class...

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