I'm using Laravel's Dusk for browser testing.
Sporadically, when I run php artisan dusk
nothing happens. No errors, no output, nothing.
To demonstrate the "nothingness", here's a short video clip.
Same nothingness occurs when running php artisan dusk -vvv
.
I am able to run individual tests by specifying the file name, e.g. php artisan dusk /path/to/site/tests/Browser/PagesTest.php
I've run each of my individual tests this way - thinking maybe one was short-circuiting it - but they all run fine when invoked individually.
Sometimes this will happen, I'll troubleshoot for a while, give up, then come back to it days later and it will just work fine.
Update w/ additional info:
Specs:
Figured it out: I had two different Browser test files with the same class name.
It happened when I duplicated an existing test to create a new one and forgot to change the class name.
I was getting no output, but behind the scenes it was a PHP error.
I've since learned that if I add the following to phpunit.dusk.xml
, it will show the error:
<php>
<ini name="display_errors" value="On" />
<ini name="display_startup_errors" value="On" />
</php>
Now, when a mistake like that exists, I get useful feedback:
$ php artisan dusk
Fatal error: Cannot declare class Tests\Browser\AccountTest,
because the name is already in use in /tests/Browser/GroupTest.php on line 30