When running phpunit test following Error occurs in Building Laravel App with TDD episode 5

Add the following in the function to disable csrf:

$this->withoutMiddleware(VerifyCsrfToken::class);

Can you show the code for a_user_can_create_a_project test case?

It should not be necessary explicitly disable the VerifyCsrfToken middleware; this is handled automatically whenever the environment is testing; which is set by the APP_ENV environment setting in the phpunit.xml file in the project root. I am guessing that your PHPUnit is not using this configuration - are you running the tests in PHPStorm; can you check the Default Configuration for PHPUnit?

I'm using VS Code .In Phpunit xml file it is configured to testing.

./tests/Unit

    <testsuite name="Feature">
        <directory suffix="Test.php">./tests/Feature</directory>
    </testsuite>
</testsuites>
<filter>
    <whitelist processUncoveredFilesFromWhitelist="true">
        <directory suffix=".php">./app</directory>
    </whitelist>
</filter>
<php>
    <server name="APP_ENV" value="testing"/>
    <server name="BCRYPT_ROUNDS" value="4"/>
    <server name="CACHE_DRIVER" value="array"/>
    <server name="MAIL_DRIVER" value="array"/>
    <server name="QUEUE_CONNECTION" value="sync"/>
    <server name="SESSION_DRIVER" value="array"/>
    <server name="DB_CONNECTION" value="mysql"/>
    <server name="DB_DATABASE" value="birdboardtest"/>
    <server name="DB_HOST" value="127.0.0.1"/>
    <server name="DB_PORT" value="3306"/>        
    <server name="DB_USERNAME" value="root"/>
    <server name="DB_PASSWORD" value="1234"/>

    



</php>

/** @test */ public function a_user_can_create_a_project() { $this->withoutExceptionHandling();

    $this->withoutMiddleware(VerifyCsrfToken::class);

    $attributes = [
        'title' => $this->faker->sentence,
        'description' => $this->faker->paragraph
    ];

    $this->post('/projects',$attributes);

    $this->assertDatabaseHas('projects',$attributes);
}

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46325790/phpunit-expected-status-code-200-but-received-419-with-laravel

solved my problem.