How to Run Laravel Database Seeder from PHPUnit Test setUp?

Question

I am trying to recreate the database before each test in some PHPUnit test cases. I am using Laravel 5.3. Here is TestCase:

class CourseTypesTest extends TestCase {     public function setUp()     {         parent::setUp();         Artisan::call('migrate');         Artisan::call('db:seed', ['--class' => 'TestDatabaseSeeder ', '--database' => 'testing']);     }      /**      * A basic functional test example.      *      * @return void      */     public function test_list_course_types()     {         $httpRequest = $this->json('GET', '/api/course-types');         $httpRequest->assertResponseOk();         $httpRequest->seeJson();      }      public function tearDown()     {         Artisan::call('migrate:reset');         parent::tearDown();     } } 

Running phpunit fails with error:

$ phpunit PHPUnit 5.7.5 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.

E 1 / 1 (100%)

Time: 2.19 seconds, Memory: 12.00MB

There was 1 error:

1) CourseTypesTest::test_list_course_types ReflectionException: Class TestDatabaseSeeder does not exist

D:\www\learn-laravel\my-folder-api\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\Container.php:749 D:\www\learn-laravel\my-folder-api\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\Container.php:644 D:\www\learn-laravel\my-folder-api\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Application.php:709 D:\www\learn-laravel\my-folder-api\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Database\Console\Seeds\SeedCommand.php:74 D:\www\learn-laravel\my-folder-api\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Database\Console\Seeds\SeedCommand.php:63 D:\www\learn-laravel\my-folder-api\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model.php:2292 D:\www\learn-laravel\my-folder-api\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Database\Console\Seeds\SeedCommand.php:64 D:\www\learn-laravel\my-folder-api\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\Container.php:508 D:\www\learn-laravel\my-folder-api\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Console\Command.php:169 D:\www\learn-laravel\my-folder-api\vendor\symfony\console\Command\Command.php:254 D:\www\learn-laravel\my-folder-api\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Console\Command.php:155 D:\www\learn-laravel\my-folder-api\vendor\symfony\console\Application.php:821 D:\www\learn-laravel\my-folder-api\vendor\symfony\console\Application.php:187 D:\www\learn-laravel\my-folder-api\vendor\symfony\console\Application.php:118 D:\www\learn-laravel\my-folder-api\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Console\Application.php:107 D:\www\learn-laravel\my-folder-api\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel.php:218 D:\www\learn-laravel\my-folder-api\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Support\Facades\Facade.php:237 D:\www\learn-laravel\my-folder-api\tests\rest\CourseTypesTest.php:17

ERRORS! Tests: 1, Assertions: 0, Errors: 1.

but this class exists:

Answer 1

Since version 5.8 you can do:

// Run the DatabaseSeeder... $this->seed();  // Run a single seeder... $this->seed(OrderStatusesTableSeeder::class); 

Take a look at the documentation