Generate a Stripe test card token for testing

Question

I am using Stripe in my app. I want to write an integration test for placing a payment that checks Stripe that a payment was created. I'm using Stripe.js.

In my test I need a card token to perform the test charge. Usually this token would be generated client side with stripe.js and sent in the request to perform the charge. As this is a server-side only test is there some way I can generate a token from within the test?

For reference the test would be something like this (uses php but the principle is the same):

/** @test **/ public function it_creates_a_charge() {     $order = factory(Order::class)->create();     $stripe_token = Stripe::generateToken([                                           'card' => '4242424242424242'                                           'exp'  => '04/2017',                                           'cvc'  => '123'                                           ]); // does not exist afaik      $response = $this->post('charges/store', [                 'stripe_token' => $stripe_token,                 'order_id' => $order->id,                 //etc                 ]);      // assertions... } 

Essentially I'm asking if there's something within the Stripe API that allows server-side token generation.

Answer 1

Stripe provides an API call to create tokens from the server:

\Stripe\Stripe::setApiKey("sk_test_BQokikJOvBiI2HlWgH4olfQ2");  \Stripe\Token::create(array(   "card" => array(     "number" => "4242424242424242",     "exp_month" => 1,     "exp_year" => 2017,     "cvc" => "314"   ) )); 

edit: Stripe now provides ready-to-use test tokens like tok_visa at https://stripe.com/docs/testing#cards.

Answer 2

You don't need to create tokens with fake credit cards for testing anymore. Stripe now provides a list of pre-made tokens for this purpose :

Stripe docs : Test card numbers and tokens