I have:
1. IntegrationTestCase extends TestCase
2. UnitTestCase extends TestCase
3. AcceptanceTestCase extends TestCase
In these I have quite a lot of non-static methods which are used in a lot of tests. All of my Test classes extend one of these 3 classes.
Now in a lot of Test classes I have a setUp
method which preps the data and services needed and assigns them to class variables:
class SomeTestClass extends IntegrationTestCase
{
private $foo;
public function setUp()
{
parent::setUp();
$bar = $this->createBar(...);
$this->foo = new Foo($bar);
}
public function testA() { $this->foo...; }
public function testB() { $this->foo...; }
}
Problem is setUp
is ran for each test defeating what I wanted to do and if what setUp
method does takes a long time this is multiplied by the number of test methods.
Using public function __construct(...) { parent::__construct(..); ... }
creates a problem because now lower level methods and classes from Laravel are not available.
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