How to test a redirect for ressource route

we use 'prefix' and for authenticity we use 'middleware' if you know what i mean

Yes, thank you. I should clarify a bit more my question.

I have some CRUDs controller ( let's take the UserController for instance ).

Every CRUD has custom limitations depending on roles, and this is handled in the middleware.

The application is functionning as intended.

My question is more on how to test via PHPUnit that when they navigate to the route the middleware is called ?

And in my example, the standard users have the same redirection on every method of this controller.

But some users have access to only some methods. Shoud i test the redirect in my Feature test for each role not having access to the method ?

Thanks.

Personally, I would be as explicit as possible in tests. Specify every route and role. You can use PHPUnit's data providers to loop through multiple datasets.

The easiest way would be to test the route's response. Laravel's test suite provides you with a TestResponse instance after using the built-in get(), post(), etc. methods. The TestResponse class has a method called assertRedirect(), so a simple test could look like this:

/**
  * @dataProvider routesDataProvider
  */
public function testAdminRoutesRequireAdminRole($route, $method) {
    // Either don't authenticate or authenticate with a user that has insufficient permissions
    $this->call($method, $route)
        ->assertRedirect('/access-denied');
}

public function routesDataProvider() {
    return [
        ['/admin/page', 'GET'],
    ];
}

In your console type below and you can check every routes and middleware.

php artisan route:list