04-Controller-Helpers.md

Controller Helpers

This package contains a small list of controller-specific helper methods. Stored as a trait, include them, like so:

<?php

class ExampleTest extends TestCase {
    use Way\Tests\ControllerHelpers;
}

Methods

see

Use the see, shouldSee, or assertSee method to verify text content for a given response. Each of these does the same thing. Just use the one that feels most readable to you.

public function testFindHelloOnHomePage()
{
    $this->call('GET', '/');
    
    $this->see('Hello World');
}

Optionally, you may specify an HTML container. For example, to search for My Post within an h1 tag...

$this->see('My Post', 'h1');

notSee

Use notSee, shouldNotSee, or assertNotSee to perform the opposite, like so:

public function testFindHelloOnHomePage()
{
    $this->call('GET', '/');
    
    $this->see('Die Wil Wheaton');
    $this->notSee('Die Sheldon');
}