Laravel Testing Tips, Techniques and Pitfalls
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Practical claims and tools: replace manual checks with acceptance tests backed by faster unit/integration layers, run migrations before each test on SQLite in memory to isolate state, use factory create for resilient test data, prefer mocking interfaces with mockery shouldReceive over concrete classes, consider AspectMock for legacy static access, bind implementations in the IoC container for easy swapping, and start simple — acceptance-first then add smaller tests as suites grow (example: 150 slow acceptance tests signal the need to layer).
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