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Controller Testing 374
151 }
152
153 protected function getMailerMock()
154 {
155 return Mockery::mock("Formativ\PostMailerInterface")
156 ->makePartial();
157 }
158
159 protected function getResponseMock()
160 {
161 return Mockery::mock("Illuminate\Support\Facades\Response")
162 ->makePartial();
163 }
164
165 protected function getDispatcherMock()
166 {
167 return Mockery::mock("Illuminate\Events\Dispatcher")
168 ->makePartial();
169 }
170 }
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This file should be saved as app/tests/controllers/PostControllerTest.php.
Here we’re still testing method calls, but we also test multiple paths through the store() method.
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We haven’t used any assertions, even though they are very useful for unit and functional testing.
Feel free to use them to check output values…
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You can find out more about Mockery at: https://github.com/padraic/mockery.
https://github.com/padraic/mockery