Mocking and faking in Laravel - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to create a mock of the User model.

Laravel

$user = $this->[1](User::class);

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Afake

Bmock

Cspy

Dcreate

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using 'fake' instead of 'mock' when creating a mock object.

Using 'create' which actually creates a real instance.

Use mock to create a mock object in Laravel for testing.

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medium

Complete the code to fake the mail sending in a test.

Laravel

Mail::[1]();

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Aspy

Bmock

Csend

Dfake

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using 'mock' which creates a mock but does not fake the mail system.

Using 'send' which actually sends mail.

Use fake to prevent actual mail sending during tests.

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hard

Fix the error in the code to assert a method was called once on a mock.

Laravel

$mock->shouldReceive('process')->[1]();

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Anever

Btimes

Conce

Dtwice

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Common Mistakes

Using 'never' which asserts the method was not called.

Using 'times' without specifying a number.

Use once() to assert the method was called exactly one time.

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hard

Fill both blanks to fake the event and assert it was dispatched.

Laravel

Event::[1]();
Event::[2](UserRegistered::class);

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Afake

Bdispatched

CassertDispatched

Dspy

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using 'dispatched' instead of 'assertDispatched' for assertion.

Using 'spy' instead of 'fake' to fake events.

Use fake() to fake events and assertDispatched() to check an event was fired.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to mock a repository, set expectation, and call the method.

Laravel

$repo = $this->[1](UserRepository::class);
$repo->shouldReceive('[2]')->andReturn(true);
$result = $repo->[3]();

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Amock

Bsave

Dfake

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using 'fake' instead of 'mock' to create the mock.

Using different method names in expectation and call.

First, create a mock with mock(). Then set expectation on save method and call it.