PHPUnit VS Faker

PHPUnit is the de facto standard for PHP unit testing. It provides a framework for writing and running tests, helping developers quickly discover and fix errors. PHPUnit encourages developers to write testable code and adopt a test-driven development approach, resulting in higher-quality code and reduced chances of errors in production.

Before updating Api Platform, you should make sure that your Api Platform routes are fully covered by tests. You can define integration tests with PHPUnit, Behat or Pest, depending on the tool you’re most comfortable with.

PHP popular tools for testing: PHPUnit

PHPUnit: PHPUnit is a programmer-oriented testing framework for PHP. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks. Extensions/tools: brianium/paratest: Parallel testing for PHPUnit johnkary/phpunit-speedtrap: Reports on slow-running tests in your PHPUnit test suite. robiningelbrecht/phpunit-pretty-print: Better PHPUnit CLI output with Collision roave/no-leaks: PHPUnit Plugin for detecting Memory Leaks in code and tests

We want to start migrating to Attributes because of the announcement made here that in PHPUnit 12 support for metadata in docblocks will be removed: https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/issues/4502

PHPUnit: PHPUnit PHPUnit is a testing framework for PHP. It enables developers to write unit tests, integration tests, and functional tests to verify the correctness of their code. It offers a wide range of assertions, test runners, and mocking capabilities. Documentation: Explore PHPUnit's capabilities and learn how to write effective tests in the official documentation: PHPUnit Repository

I really like how Pest PHP formats and outputs test results, but I still prefer to use PHPUnit. Luckily there's Collision. This package is designed to give you beautiful error reporting when interacting with your app through the command line.

Finally we install the command line version of php (no web server is needed for this project), composer which is a package management system for PHP and PHP Unit, the testing framework of PHP.

I've been developing my own symfony bundle and I would like to share with you how I'm driving continuos integration to execute my unit tests. For testing purposes I'm using phpunit and for continous integration i've choosen github actions.

PHPUnit is a unit testing framework for PHP included with Laravel and can be used to test your application's code. It provides a set of assertions and functions for testing your code and can be used to run automated tests.

Faker is a PHP project that allows you to generate data for various testing scenarios. It excels in multilingual support, capable of generating fake data in multiple languages and diverse formats. This feature allows testing multilingual applications and enriching databases with authentic-looking test data.

I've worked with PHP's Faker library and the seeder included with Laravel. I had been able to populate the database with fake data but now I'm working with Django.

Now let's generate fake data for our user's table using the Laravel package, Faker.

more infos on the documentation : https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker

You can use the Faker library in your user factory file.

To learn elasticsearch, you need lots of data to make queries as you want. I searched a few places to get a valid dump. But I couldn't find any dump that I can go with. Also what I found online, I am not familiar with the types of data. So, I thought to make a generator of my own. I have already used Artisan Console and fzaninotto/Faker, that's why I thought to make a generator that anyone can use with their terminal and generate the dump the way they wish.

Model factories in Laravel allow you to generate dummy/fake data using the Faker PHP library. The Faker library allows generating random data by specifying various attributes. With factories you define fake data to be generated for each attribute/column of your model. This not only saves you time of manually inserting database records, but enables you to save thousands of records in your database within seconds.

The original has been archived due to the amount of effort it took to update and has been forked into https://github.com/FakerPHP/Faker/, which is what Laravel now uses.

👉 https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker