Level 74
If you have set up a testing database you should be good.
Oct 11, 2021
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Level 3
Make real HTTP requests in the testing environment
Hi, I'm working on the integration of Blackfire performance tests within our Laravel integration tests.
At the end of the end, I wish we could have something as:
$response = $this->get('/test/foo');
$response->assertBlackfire();
A real profile should be triggered and all the matching assertions defined in the Blackfire conf file evaluated.
To do so, I need to make a real request, with Guzzle by instance, so that the Blackfire probe could detect and instrument the request. But, I need to stay within the testing environment, not to mess with real data.
Do you see any possibilities of doing so?
Thanks
Level 3
@Tray2 Not quite, maybe. If I stick with the actual behavior of $this->get('/test/foo');, I will indeed stay within the testing environment. But I won't make an actual HTTP request, and the Blackfire probe won't detect and instrument it. We are just passing stuff directly to the kernel already boot-up.
What I like to do is to override this with a middleware so as to make a full request transforming $this->get('/test/foo'); into Http::get('https://my.domain.or.localhost/test/foo');
Yet, I cannot execute the latter request forcing Laravel to use the testing environment.
Level 80
@thomasdiluccio PHPUnit is for testing code, not performance.
Level 3
@martinbean Indeed. Yet, it's quite a common request. There is already an integration with PHPUnit. https://blackfire.io/docs/php/integrations/phpunit#documentation
But none yet with the functional tests of Laravel https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/testing
Level 80
@thomasdiluccio And if you look at that example, it’s testing internal things like number of SQL queries executed. That doesn’t mean you should be making real HTTP requests in your test suite.
But none yet with the functional tests of Laravel https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/testing
Laravel’s test framework is built around PHPUnit. It’s not a completely separate entity. It’s just PHPUnit with a few helper methods.
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