Test-Driven Laravel

A practical guide on how to use the software development process (TTD) using a real example. The author writes a website from scratch using the Laravel framework for selling electronic tickets for concerts.

Simple examples are good for learning the basics, but I would like to know how to apply this material to real products that I actually built at work.

I've spent the last 5 years figuring out how to build web applications using TDD; connecting things from every resource I made.

What will you learn

The biggest goal of this course is to teach you how to use TDD in reality.

We will talk about the basic principles:

• Which test should you write first
• Organizing a test suite
• Functional Tests vs. Unit Tests
• Validity rules
• Testing events and background jobs
• Working with test databases
• Speeding up tests with test pairs

...as well as hard topics like:

• Testing code that interacts with third-party services
• Writing your own test from scratch
• Testing automatic payments with Stripe Connect
• Testing sending bulk emails
• How to check race conditions 
• Testing file loading and image processing on the server side

The course teaches you how to create a robust test suite for a real, marketable product.

Together we will build TicketBeast, a platform for local promoters to sell tickets to their events.

Over the course of 166 lessons, covering just under 22 hours of content, we'll implement features such as:

• Purchasing tickets via Stripe Checkout
• Creating and publishing new concert listings
• Sending mass emails to ticket holders
• Generate unique order confirmation numbers and ticket codes
• Uploading poster images and optimizing them on the server
• Inviting new users through the console
• Enabling promoters to connect their Stripe accounts via OAuth 2.0
• Split Payments Using Stripe Connect

The course is huge, but it's the most comprehensive TDD resource I've ever seen.