The recent upgrade to Laravel 5.2 has caused issues with PHPUnit, rendering it inoperable

To ensure our project stays current and can benefit from the latest developments, we made the upgrade from Laravel 5.1 to 5.2 yesterday. After spending some time tweaking our codebase, everything appears to be functioning normally, except for the fact that our PHPUnit tests, which were heavily relied upon in version 5.1, have suddenly stopped working. Upon running PHPUnit, the initialization message is displayed:

PHPUnit 4.8.24 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.

However, it then hangs indefinitely. I attempted to update to a newer version of PHPUnit (we were previously using 4.2.24, but tried upgrading to 5.3.2 with the same outcome).

Unfortunately, there are no error logs to refer to. To rule out any issues caused by the tests themselves, I even tried running PHPUnit without any tests:

Time: 2.19 seconds, Memory: 4.25Mb
No tests executed!

This suggests that there may be something within my tests triggering this problem, yet even after reducing them to just one test, the issue persists.

Does anyone have insight into what may be causing this when transitioning from 5.1 to 5.2? How should I approach debugging and resolving this issue to get the tests running again?

We are working with PHP version 5.6.13.

Additional configuration details:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<phpunit backupGlobals="false"
        backupStaticAttributes="false"
        bootstrap="bootstrap/autoload.php"
        colors="true"
        convertErrorsToExceptions="true"
        convertNoticesToExceptions="true"
        convertWarningsToExceptions="true"
        processIsolation="false"
        stopOnFailure="true">
    <testsuites>
        <testsuite name="Application Test Suite">
            <directory>./tests/</directory>
        </testsuite>
    </testsuites>
    <filter>
        <whitelist>
            <directory suffix=".php">app/</directory>
        </whitelist>
    </filter>
    <php>
        <env name="APP_ENV" value="testing"/>
        <env name="CACHE_DRIVER" value="array"/>
        <env name="SESSION_DRIVER" value="array"/>
        <env name="QUEUE_DRIVER" value="sync"/>
    </php>
</phpunit>
phplaravelphpunitlaravel-5

Answer №1

For those of you who find yourselves entangled in the complexities of Laravel, the issue at hand stemmed from a configuration shift from 5.1 to 5.2. After growing frustrated, I decided to reconstruct my configuration from scratch, which ultimately resolved the issues I was facing. Here's what I did:

  1. Create a new testing environment file named .env.testing.

My version of this file looks something like this:

DB_CONNECTION="testing"

DB_HOST=localhost
DB_DATABASE=something_tests
DB_USERNAME=username
DB_PASSWORD=password

APP_DEBUG="true"
  1. In your phpunit.xml file, within the <php> section, include 
    <env name="APP_ENV" value="testing"/>
    , directing it to the previously mentioned file.
  2. Double-check your config/database.php file to ensure that the DB_CONNECTION is properly defined and accurate.

Upon completion, execute the usual php artisan config:clear. Additionally, I've noticed that sometimes my testing database becomes corrupted if certain tests fail during development, requiring me to occasionally wipe everything out and start anew.

Answer №2

Dealing with the same problem, I managed to resolve it by eliminating the utilization of DatabaseMigrations in my testing process. If you currently have it implemented, consider removing it and giving your tests another run.

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