Test Laravel package integration

Hi

What I want to do is test my Laravel 5 package. Specifically how it integrates with a actual Laravel app(I already have unit tests).

My idea is:

• create a tests/Integration directory in my package

• exclude tests/Integration in phpunit.xml

• in tests/Integration install a Laravel project, create a simple app and write tests there

• do not require my package as a Laravel app dependency, instead autoload newest version like this

    "autoload": {
        "psr-4": {
            "MyNamespace\\": "../../src/",
            "App\\": "app/"
        }
    },

With described solution the workflow would be:

• Run phpunit in main directory

• Go to tests/Integration

• Run composer update(for newest version of Laravel and to dump-autoload automatically)

• Run phpunit there

Do you know a simplier solution? Do you think I should create this Laravel test app as a separate project that requires my package and run the tests completely separately.

If you are concerned about composer pulling my Integration tests(which is a Laravel app) when running composer require my-package, I have solved this by adding tests export-ignore to .gitattributes.

Thanks for any suggestions. Kuba