TDD With Laravel — A step-by-step guide on how to build well-tested Laravel applications

Testing should not be hard.

Most tutorials use examples like summing or multiplying numbers, which isn't really useful in a real-world situation and might make you think testing is much harder than it actually is.

On this course, I'll teach you how to test a Laravel application from scratch, with detailed screencasts and a Git repository for you to check the progress at anytime.

We will build an uptime checker application, and you'll learn:

Basics

Why do we test?
What are tests made of?
Understanding factories, stubs and mocks
What we’ll be building
Setting up Laravel Jetstream

Structuring our models and factories

Setting up our sites and pings tables
Setting up our factories
Adding a site
Making sure only authenticated users can add sites
Adding a valid site
Validating the site is live
Converting our validation to a custom validation rule
Extracting validation logic to a request class
Notifying the user a new site was added
Making sure you can’t add the same site twice

Allowing users to enable or disable sites

Making sure we show active sites separately
Adding and testing query scopes
Notifying the team a site was disabled

Creating a job that pings a website and saves the result in the database

Sketching out our job test
Writing the logic that pings a website

Flagging sites

Flagging sites that fail twice in a row
Notifying the users once a site goes down
Notifying the users once a site comes back up
Making sure we don’t send a bunch of e-mails at once
Writing a job to check websites every minute

Going further

Analysing HTTP statuses and giving users suggestions
Saving response times
Sending a webhook once a check fails
Checking for certain HTML content on the website

Lessons

04:51

00 - Concepts & Terms
06:50

01 - Setting Up Our Application
08:15

01 - Assertions And Test Examples
12:37

02 - Writing Our First Test
01:51

03 - Testing Authentication Is Required
02:29

04 - Testing Validation
07:02

05 - Testing Sites Have Valid URL Protocols
04:03

06 - Extracting Validation To A Request Class
04:35

07 - Visual Changes & Making Sure A Site Does Not Get Added Twice
11:31

07 - Sending Notifications
10:15

08 - Checking A Website
00:31

08 - Casting The Check Model Properties
04:20

09 - Calculating The Elapsed Time
03:43

10 - Faking The HTTP Client
04:52

11 - Testing All HTTP Failure Codes Using Data Providers
01:18

11 - Making Http Assertions
10:28

12 - Test Driving Bugs
02:55

13 - Limiting The Response Content
04:21

14 - Wrapping Things Up Writing Small, Important Tests
03:34

15 - Checking The Website As Soon As It Is Added
05:59

16 - Writing A Command To Check Every Website Every Single Minute
07:12

17 - Notifying The User Once Their Website Goes Down
04:06

18 - Notifying The User Once Their Site Comes Back Up
03:17

18 - Testing The SiteIsDown Notification Class
07:20

19 - Refactoring Combining Two Notifications Into One
06:54

20 - Accepting Webhook URLs On Sites
07:20

21 - Sending Webhooks Back
13:51

22 - Extracting The Webhook Code To Its Own Job
03:27

23 - Replacing The Webhook Call With A Job Dispatch
01:52

24 - Testing The Site
08:13

25 - Refactoring The CheckWebsite Test
09:08

26 - Making Sure We Can Filter Offline Sites
09:44

27 - Filtering Archived Sites
10:34

28 - Filtering Active Sites
03:29

29 - Setting Up Dusk
11:57

30 - Writing Our First Dusk Test

Pricing

7-day no questions asked refund policy.

If you don't enjoy the course, it's fine — you'll be refunded.

Early Release

$149

Get access to the lessons as they're released and get a 30% discount.

Lifetime access to all lessons as they're added
Access to the Slack workspace
Access to the Github repository
Ability to request new lessons

Buy Now

Standard

$199

Get access to the finished, polished version of the course.

Lifetime access to all lessons
Access to the Slack workspace
Access to the Github repository
Ability to request new lessons

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Who's teaching?

Hey! My name is Mateus Guimarães and I've been writing code for a few years now.

I've worked with several different types of clients, including companies in the telecommunications, marketing and SMS businesses.

I've also had my own company — a ticketing platform — which gave me a lot of experience writing robust, well-tested apps.

In my free time, I like to blog and I also have a YouTube channel with programming screencasts and general life/work videos.

You can also find me on Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn and Instagram.

Frequently asked questions

Who is this course for?: This course is aimed at developers that already comfortable with Laravel and want to learn testing. If you're well-experienced with TDD, this course might not be worth it.
As a beginner, you'll learn how to actually write tests that keep you happy and your application stable.
As an intermediate developer that doesn't know much about testing, you'll learn some nice tricks and get more comfortable with Laravel's testing API.
Do you offer refunds?: Yes. You have 7 days to ask for a refund. No questions asked.
I don't know Laravel, should I buy this course?: Probably not. I suggest you learn the basics and then see if you're still interested in the course.
Why should I chosee this course over Laracasts?: If you have to choose between this course and Laracasts, I suggest you go with Laracasts.
This course is going to aggregate a lot to you, but on Laracasts you can learn about several other things.
Do you support purchasing power parity?: Yes! It is not available on the website yet, but you can send me an e-mail at mateus@mateusguimaraes.com and I'll give you a 30% discount if you're from a country with a lower purchasing power.
I'm a student and I don't have enough money to buy this course. What can I do?: I want everybody to be able to purchase this course if they want it. Send me an email at mateus@mateusguimaraes.com or reach out to me on Twitter and we'll figure things out!
Besides the screencasts, what do you get?: You get access to the Git repository and to a Slack workspace where you can chat with other members and solve your doubts.
Are there going to be additional lessons?: Definitely. The current table of contents is just a reference — I will surely add additional lessons for awhile, as long as topics come up.
Do you have any free content?: Sure I do. Check out my YouTube Channel.