Testing the Laravel Package

Question

So, I am writing a basic Laravel package, and I seem to have stumbled upon another problem, this time with testing.

Currently, a package in development is located in the packages folder in the root of the project. I modified the composer.json file of the package to include the dependencies I need

 "require-dev": { "phpunit/phpunit": "~4.0", "laravel/laravel": "dev-develop" } 

However, when I try to run phpunit tests in a package folder (which contains a folder called tests along with a test sample), I get the following error:

PHP Fatal error: class 'Illuminate \ Foundation \ Testing \ TestCase' not found in / workspace / laravel / packages / sample / http -request / tests / HttpRequestTest.php on line 8

The test file is just a stub automatically generated:

 <?php use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\WithoutMiddleware; use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseMigrations; use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseTransactions; class HttpRequestTest extends Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\TestCase { /** * A basic test example. * * @return void */ public function testExample() { $this->assertTrue(true); } } 

Any idea why this is not working? Application tests run smoothly, but the application itself has no dependencies other than what is in the field.

Decision

I managed to get it working independently by expanding PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase:

 class HttpRequestTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase 

However, by running it like this:

 vendor/bin/phpunit packages/yourname/package-name/ 

It also works, so I chose it as the answer.

Answer 1

This works for me:

 class HttpRequestTest extends TestCase 

And do the test with:

 vendor/bin/phpunit packages/yourname/package-name/ 

Answer 2

(Sent on behalf of the OP as a response).

I managed to get it working independently by expanding PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase:

 class HttpRequestTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase 

However, by running it like this:

 vendor/bin/phpunit packages/yourname/package-name/ 

It also works, so I chose it as the answer.