Unable to locate factory with name [default]??

After a bit of debugging, I found that in my test, App\User::class was returning '\Tests\Integration\App\User' instead of 'App\User'. Using '\App\User' solved the problem.

<?php

namespace App\Tests\Integration;

use App\Tests\TestCase;

class AuthTest extends TestCase
{
    /**
     * @test
     */
    public function it_logs_in_user()
    {
        factory(\App\User::class)->create();
    }
}

You helped me figure out my issue with this error.

Try adding this under namespace: use App\User;

Then you dont have to define \App\User::class in your factory, just User::class

Cheers

Thank you

Was doing my head in.

The issue is that the documentation @ https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/database-testing#using-factories is that it is missing the slash.

Just in case, someone else reads this, who uses setUp() method to initialize factory models.

My problem was actually forgetting to call parent::setUp(). I overrode setUp() method on my test and initialized all factories there.

public function setUp()
{
    parent::setUp(); // I forgot this one

    $this->user = factory('App\User')->create();
    $this->thread = factory('App\Thread')->create();

    $this->reply = factory('App\Reply')->create([
        'user_id' => $this->user->id
    ]);
}

Thank you midoriya.one.for.all I forgot the parent::setUp(); as well.

I have a similar issue.

In my test, ThreadsTest.php:

<?php

namespace Tests\Feature;

use Tests\TestCase;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseMigrations;

class ThreadsTest extends TestCase
{
  use DatabaseMigrations;

  private $thread;

  /**
   * @test
   *
   * A user can view all threads.
   *
   * @return void
   */
  public function a_user_can_view_all_threads()
  {   
    $this->thread = factory('App\Models\Thread')->create();

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

    $response->assertSee($this->thread->title);
  }

/**
   * @test
   *
   * A user can read a single thread.
   *
   * @return void
   */
  public function a_user_can_read_a_single_thread()
  {
    $this->thread = factory('App\Models\Thread')->create();

    $response = $this->get('/threads/' . $this->thread->id);

    $response->assertSee($this->thread->title);
  }
}

The code above works perfectly, but if I instead initialize $thread in a constructor:

public function __construct() {
  $this->thread = factory('App\Models\Thread')->create();
}

phpunit throws PHP Fatal error: Uncaught InvalidArgumentException: Unable to locate factory with name [default] [App\Models\Thread]. What I am trying to do is using the same fake thread for both tests, instead of generating a fake thread for each test. Any suggestion?

@Kenshirou You can't overload the constructor of a unit test like that. 1. you never call the parent constructor that way (relevant for PHPUnit 6 only) and 2. it's not recommended, since their is a dedicated setUp method for that.

You have to overload the setUp method instead. For ex.:

protected function setUp() {
  parent::setUp();
  $this->thread = factory('App\Models\Thread')->create();
}

I had a similar, but different issue. I was extending \PhpUnit\Framework\TestCase rather than \Tests\TestCase ^^'

@miko answers solved my problem. thank you

In my case, this issue was caused by the lack of 'use App\User' in UserFactory. PHPStorm didn`t highlight it so I could find it for a while.

This could be a cache problem. You can resolve it executing the commands following commands.

php artisan clear-compiled

composer dump-autoload

php artisan optimize

What file are you putting the setup() code in?

@psebstead its a 4-year old question, already solved.

Same here. I used php artisan make:test --unit and it had use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;. I wasn't even looking at that. Huge help, @amcsi! Thanks.

thanks

Is it expected that when we create a unit test we have to change the TestCase for the correct one? I also created a test and out of the box comes as PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase; instead of \Tests\TestCase

I'd like to know this is well. do we have to manually change it every time we make a unit test?

I figure out that when you create unit tests throught "artisan make:test --unit" the created test class will extends "PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;" if you need some database refresh this test should be created as a feature test, which extends the "TestCase" base clase provided by laravel

Hey Guys, use following code to fix Unable to locate factory for [App\FactoryName] error:

<?php

use App\Article;
use Tests\TestCase;

class ArticleTest extends TestCase
{

    /** @test */
    public function it_fetches_trending_article()
    {
        // Given
        factory(Article::class, 2)->create();
        ... 
    }
}

@midoriya.one.for.all thanks, that solved my problem..

use Tests\TestCase; It's working. thanks @amcsi

Hi. Thank you. @amcsi