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Testing in Laravel 11: Advanced Level

Customized Factory Class

Summary of this lesson:
- Create custom factory classes outside Laravel
- Implement advanced factory methods
- Add custom logic to model creation
- Create specialized factory behaviors
- Extend beyond default Laravel factories

In this lesson, let's look at an interesting example of a Factory class. I found an example on the spatie/freek.dev open-source repository, where they created a separate Factory class not in the database/factories but in tests/factories, mimicking the same behavior but with much more customized functions.


How That Factory Class is Used

The usage is similar to that of a regular Factory. New class initialization, then some type identical to how factories have states and...

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