Laravel 5.4 Exceptions for TDD

tdd-laravel-54-exceptions.md

You can use disableExceptionHandling method presented by Adam Wathan in this gist

Now if you run in your test:

$this->disableExceptionHandling();

you should get full info that will help you to find the problem.

<?php

namespace Tests;

use App\Exceptions\Handler;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Debug\ExceptionHandler;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\TestCase as BaseTestCase;

abstract class TestCase extends BaseTestCase
{
    use CreatesApplication;

    protected function setUp()
    {
        /**
         * This disables the exception handling to display the stacktrace on the console
         * the same way as it shown on the browser
         */
        parent::setUp();
        $this->disableExceptionHandling();
    }

    protected function disableExceptionHandling()
    {
        $this->app->instance(ExceptionHandler::class, new class extends Handler {
            public function __construct() {}

            public function report(\Exception $e)
            {
                // no-op
            }

            public function render($request, \Exception $e) {
                throw $e;
            }
        });
    }
}

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/41945739/2711989