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In Laravel 10, if I make a mistake in a test, I get a trace. In Laravel 11, this is not the case. Why and how to return it?
I installed 2 new projects with laravel 10 and laravel 11
tracing in Laravel 10
vendor/bin/phpunit
PHPUnit 10.5.19 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.
Runtime: PHP 8.3.6
Configuration: /home/ivan/www/laravel10.loc/phpunit.xml
.F 2 / 2 (100%)
Time: 00:00.085, Memory: 28.00 MB
There was 1 failure:
1) Tests\Feature\ExampleTest::test_the_application_returns_a_successful_response
Expected response status code [200] but received 500.
Failed asserting that 500 is identical to 200.
The following exception occurred during the last request:
Error: Call to undefined function App\Http\Controllers\randomint() in /home/ivan/www/laravel10.loc/app/Http/Controllers/TestController.php:9
Stack trace:
#0 /home/ivan/www/laravel10.loc/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php(54): App\Http\Controllers\TestController->test()
#1 /home/ivan/www/laravel10.loc/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php(43): Illuminate\Routing\Controller->callAction()
#2 /home/ivan/www/laravel10.loc/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php(259): Illuminate\Routing\ControllerDispatcher->dispatch()
#3 /home/ivan/www/laravel10.loc/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php(205): Illuminate\Routing\Route->runController()
#4 /home/ivan/www/laravel10.loc/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php(806): Illuminate\Routing\Route->run()
...
tracing in Laravel 11
vendor/bin/phpunit
PHPUnit 11.1.2 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.
Runtime: PHP 8.3.6
Configuration: /home/ivan/www/laravel11.loc/phpunit.xml
.F 2 / 2 (100%)
Time: 00:00.094, Memory: 30.00 MB
There was 1 failure:
1) Tests\Feature\ExampleTest::test_the_application_returns_a_successful_response
Expected response status code [200] but received 500.
Failed asserting that 500 is identical to 200.
/home/ivan/www/laravel11.loc/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Testing/TestResponse.php:159
/home/ivan/www/laravel11.loc/tests/Feature/ExampleTest.php:17
FAILURES!
Tests: 2, Assertions: 2, Failures: 1.
if you really want go without exception handling, add this to your tests/TestCase.php
public function setUp(): void
{
parent::setUp();
$this->withoutExceptionHandling();
}
or you can use it directly just in those test that "need" it
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