Laravel Unit testing Routes

Question

My test method has:

 $this->visitRoute('route.name')->see('something');

Response:

There was 1 failure:

1) Tests\Unit\MyTest::testRoute
A request to [http://localhost/route.name] failed. Received status code [500].
Caused by
PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1 no such table 'tableThatExists'

BUT when I test:

$this->visit('/')

As provided in Laravel documentation, it works, what is wrong??

And also if I just want to test responses without "see" condition how do I do it?

If anybody knows simple basic laravel unit tests it could help as well

Answer 1

use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseMigrations;

in file and

use DatabaseMigrations;

in class

Answer 2

This error is because the app test is not finding the database.

Try with:
Into phpunit.xml inside php tag you need to set a testing database like this

<php>
    <env name="APP_ENV" value="testing"/>
    <env name="CACHE_DRIVER" value="array"/>
    <env name="SESSION_DRIVER" value="array"/>
    <env name="QUEUE_DRIVER" value="sync"/>
    <env name="DB_CONNECTION" value="sqlite"/>
    <env name="DB_DATABASE" value=":memory:"/>
</php>