Help me understand withExceptionHandling() and withoutExceptionHandling()

I think this is explained in 'The Exception handling conundrum' lesson in 'Let's Build A Forum with Laravel and TDD'

Thanks

@thebigk The methods do exactly what they say on the tin: they run your tests with exception handling, or without.

Without exception handling is handy when doing HTTP tests, like:

$response = $this->get('/foo');

$response->assertSuccessful();

Your test is asserting the response status is successful, but you might get a 500. But by default, if you do get a 500 status you don’t know why. So if you disable exception handling, it will instead log that exception to the console for you to see why and then fix it:

$this->withoutExceptionHandling();

// If this throws a 500 error, it’ll now display in the console instead
$response = $this->get('/foo');

// This won’t be called, as the exception above will halt execution
$response->assertSuccessful();