laravel and phpunit: could not find driver (SQL: PRAGMA foreign_keys = ON;)

Question

I have run my laravel app with phpunit. Everything is fine until at some point when I run my test again turns out with this error.

Illuminate\Database\QueryException: could not find driver (SQL: PRAGMA foreign_keys = ON;)

Caused by
PDOException: could not find driver

Here's my phpunit.xml file:

<phpunit xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
     xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="./vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit.xsd"
     bootstrap="vendor/autoload.php"
     colors="true">
<testsuites>
    <testsuite name="Unit">
        <directory suffix="Test.php">./tests/Unit</directory>
    </testsuite>
    <testsuite name="Feature">
        <directory suffix="Test.php">./tests/Feature</directory>
    </testsuite>
</testsuites>
<filter>
    <whitelist processUncoveredFilesFromWhitelist="true">
        <directory suffix=".php">./app</directory>
    </whitelist>
</filter>
<php>
    <server name="APP_ENV" value="testing"/>
    <server name="BCRYPT_ROUNDS" value="4"/>
    <server name="CACHE_DRIVER" value="array"/>
    <server name="DB_CONNECTION" value="sqlite"/>
    <server name="DB_DATABASE" value=":memory:"/>
    <server name="MAIL_MAILER" value="array"/>
    <server name="QUEUE_CONNECTION" value="sync"/>
    <server name="SESSION_DRIVER" value="array"/>
    <server name="TELESCOPE_ENABLED" value="false"/>
</php>

OS: Windows 10 | php version: PHP 7.4.11 | sqlite version: SQLite version 3.19.1

Does anyone encounter with this error in laravel 6 and phpunit?

Answer 1

This is actually happening after I upgraded my php version in laragon. The solution is to enable pdo_sqlite on php extension in laragon. That's it. This answer found here https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/phpunit-sqlite-error-after-updating-laragon-pdoexception-could-not-find-driver