Unit testing user login in Laravel

Question

Users can only log into the system when their account is active. I use a factory to create a user (initially their status is set to 'pending') and then try to post to the login form.

From here, I'm not too sure what assertions I need to do. I have already written the code that does this functionality (I have a custom Validator in the validateLogin form) and then it throws an error message something along the lines of 'your account is not active'.

What's the best way to approach this? What I have so far:

/** @test */
public function it_can_only_login_if_the_status_is_active()
{
    $user = factory(User::class)->create();
    $this->post('login', ['email' => $user->email, 'password' => $user->password, '_token' => csrf_token()]);
}

thefallen · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-02 11:44:02Z

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With the build in Laravel testing methods you could do this:

    $user = factory(User::class)->create();

    $this->visit('/login')
        ->type($user->email, 'email')
        ->type($user->password, 'password')
        ->press('Login')
        ->see('your account is not active');

I can recommend the Codeception library if you need to test some complicated features, because with it you can verify results in the DB, create acceptance and functional tests.

answered Jun 2, 2016 at 11:44

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sjhuda Over a year ago

Awesome thanks. Just one little problem, it looks like phpunit is trying to post to localhost/login. Am I missing a setting in my tests somewhere?

thefallen Over a year ago

In the TestCase file there is protected $baseUrl = 'http://localhost'; you can change it with your domain.

sjhuda Over a year ago

Thanks, I still have some errors but I think that's to do with my code. Thanks for your help!

Umesh Mishra Over a year ago

@TheFallen in the code $user->password should return hash, so this test case should fail. I think you should use something like this $user = factory(App\User::class)->create([ 'password' => \Hash::make($this->password) ]);

thefallen Over a year ago

@UmeshMishra, yes, you're absolutely right. Your suggestion would work or you can also hardcode same password in the factory for all users and use it in the tests.

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