Unit Test class for Codeception and Laravel 5

This class allows you to write Codeception unit tests with all the same goodies (bootstrapping, helpers, facade mocking, etc) that the default Laravel testing provides.

Wait, unit tests in Codeception? I thought Codeception was for functional and acceptance testing?

It is. However it can also run unit tests where it "uses PHPUnit as a backend" and adds a few nice helpers.

Uh, then why not just PHPUnit with the default Laravel setup?

If you are writing your functional/acceptance tests in Codeception (and I encourage it!) then it might be really nice to be able to run all your tests at once for end-to-end testing. This could make automated testing / CI a bit easier.

And perhaps you also want to take advantage of both the Laravel and Codeception unit test helpers.

Setup

First off add the composer dependency:

"require-dev": {
    "stechstudio/codeception-laravel-unittest" : "0.1.*"

Then of course update composer:

composer update

Now when writing your Codeception unit tests, extend STS\Testing\CodeceptionLaravelUnitTest instead of \Codeception\TestCase\Test:

use STS\Testing\CodeceptionLaravelUnitTest;

class MyTest extends CodeceptionLaravelUnitTest {

That's it! Now you can refer to the Laravel docs to see the goodies this provides.