Phpunit tests gives warning no tests found in class

Question

I am trying to learn how to test with phpunit and laravel. When start the test using phpunit command, I am getting a warning :

There was 1 failure:  1) Warning No tests found in class "PostsTest".  FAILURES!                             Tests: 2, Assertions: 1, Failures:  

My test classname and filename matches. I have read other problems about unmatching names. my filename is PostsTest.php and my test file :

class PostsTest extends ApiTester {       public function it_fetches_posts()      {         $this->times(5)->makePost();          $this->getJson('api/v1/posts');          $this->assertResponseOk();      }      private function makePost($postFields=[])     {         $post = array_merge([             'title' => $this->fake->sentence,             'content' => $this->fake->paragragraph         ], $postFields);          while($this->times --)Post::create($post);     } } 

if necessary my ApiTester :

use Faker\Factory as Faker;  class ApiTester extends TestCase {     protected $fake;     protected $times = 1;     function __construct($faker)     {         $this->fake = Faker::create();     } } 

I dont have any clue where the error is. Laravel or my local phpunit settings or anything else. Any helps is appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Annotations are the answer.

/** @test */ public function it_tests_something() {   ... } 

Adding that @test tells phpunit to treat the function as a test, regardless of the name.