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Testing in Laravel 12 For Beginners

Refactor: Repeating Test Code into Hooks or setUp

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Summary of this lesson:
- Using Pest hooks for test setup
- Implementing setUp method in PHPUnit
- Reducing code duplication in tests
- Organizing shared test logic

In this lesson, let's see how to avoid repeating some code in the tests.

Now, we use a Factory to create a user in every test. We will extract this part using Pest hooks.


Pest Hooks

Pest offers four hook methods:

  • beforeEach()
  • afterEach()
  • beforeAll()
  • afterAll()

Each has a name that tells when it is being executed. For example, to create a user before the test is run, we can use...

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