Behat and Laravel simple solution to listen for Events

events.feature

Feature: XXX
	XXX

    Scenario: Our Behat BDD will listen for events
        When I listen for the event "PodcastPurchasedEvent"
        And I got to "buy"
        And I press "Submit"
        Then I heard the event "PodcastPurchasedEvent"

FeatureContext.php

class FeatureContext extends MinkContext implements Context, SnippetAcceptingContext
{ 
    /**
     * @When I listen for the event :event
     */
    public function iListenForTheEvent($event)
    {
        $redis = Redis::connection();
        $redis->set('eventHeard', false);

        Event::listen("App\Events\\$event", function($event) use($redis)
        {
            $redis->set('eventHeard', true);
        });
    }

    /**
     * @Then I heard the event :event
     */
    public function iHeardTheEvent($event)
    {
        $redis = Redis::connection();

        PHPUnit::assertEquals(1, $redis->get('eventHeard'), 'Event expected and was not fired, $event');
    }
 ...   
}