Laravel - Artisan Commands

Laravel 5.7 comes with a new way to process and test new commands. It includes a new artisan team testing feature and the demo is mentioned below −

class ArtisanCommandTest extends TestCase{
   public function testBasicTest() {
      $this->artisan('nova:create', [
         'name' => 'My New Admin panel'
      ])
      ->expectsQuestion('Please enter your API key', 'apiKeySecret')
      ->expectsOutput('Authenticating...')
      ->expectsQuestion('Please select a version', 'v1.0')
      ->expectsOutput('Installing...')
      ->expectsQuestion('Do you want to compile the assets?', 'yes')
      ->expectsOutput('Compiling assets...')
      ->assertExitCode(0);
   }
}

Code Explanation

Here, a new class named "ArtisanCommandTest" is created in the test cases module. It includes the base function testBasicTest which includes various assertion functions.

The artisan team expects a question to include two attributes. One with a question and the other with apiKeySecret . Here the artisan checks apiKeySecret and validates the input sent by the user.

The same scenario applies to the "Please select a version" question, where the user is required to mention a specific version.