You can setup this sample use Laradock to automatically set up a development environment for you.

• Install docker and docker-compose
• Clone repo
• Create your .env file from the example file: cp .env.testing .env
• Go to the laradock directory
• Run docker-compose up -d nginx mysql workspace
• Browse to http://localhost/

To SSH into the machine to run your tests, run docker exec -it laradock_workspace_1 /bin/bash.

Run Codeception, installed via Composer

./vendor/bin/codecept build
./vendor/bin/codecept run

Please check out some good test examples provided.

Demonstrates testing of CRUD application with

• PageObjects
• authentication (by user, credentials, http auth)
• usage of session variables
• routes
• creating and checking records in database
• testing of form errors

Demonstrates functional testing of API using REST and Laravel5 modules connected, with

• partial json inclusion in response
• GET/POST/PUT/DELETE requests
• check changes inside database