Api Testing With Laravel 5.1 (jwt-auth)

Api\Admin\TestCase.php

<?php

namespace Tests\Api;

use App\User;
use Tests\TestCase as BaseTestCase;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Authenticatable as UserContract;

class TestCase extends BaseTestCase
{

    /**
     * @var User
     */
    protected $user;

    /**
     * Set the currently logged in user for the application.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Authenticatable $user
     * @param  string|null                                $driver
     * @return $this
     */
    public function actingAs(UserContract $user, $driver = null)
    {
        $this->user = $user;

        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Call the given URI and return the Response.
     *
     * @param  string $method
     * @param  string $uri
     * @param  array  $parameters
     * @param  array  $cookies
     * @param  array  $files
     * @param  array  $server
     * @param  string $content
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function call($method, $uri, $parameters = [], $cookies = [], $files = [], $server = [], $content = null)
    {
        if ($this->user) {
            $server['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'] = 'Bearer ' . \JWTAuth::fromUser($this->user);
        }

        $server['HTTP_ACCEPT'] = 'application/json';

        return parent::call($method, $uri, $parameters, $cookies, $files, $server, $content);
    }

    /**
     * @return $this
     */
    protected function actingAsAdmin()
    {
        return $this->actingAs(factory(User::class, 'admin')->create());
    }
}

Api\Admin\TrackTest.php

<?php

namespace Tests\Api\Admin;

use App\Track;
use Tests\Api\TestCase;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseMigrations;

class TrackTest extends TestCase
{

    use DatabaseMigrations;

    /** @test */
    public function it_should_list_tracks()
    {
        factory(Track::class, 3)->create();

        $this->actingAsAdmin()
            ->get("api/admin/tracks")
            ->seeStatusCode(200)
            ->assertCount(3, json_decode($this->response->getContent()));
    }

    /** @test */
    public function it_should_create_tracks()
    {
        $data = ['name' => 'FooBar'];

        $this->actingAsAdmin()
            ->post('api/admin/tracks', $data)
            ->seeStatusCode(200)
            ->seeInDatabase('tracks', ['name' => 'FooBar']);
    }

    /** @test */
    public function it_should_update_tracks()
    {
        $track = factory(Track::class)->create(['name' => 'FooBar']);

        $data = ['name' => 'FooBarBaz'];

        $this->actingAsAdmin()
            ->post("api/admin/tracks/{$track->id}", $data)
            ->seeStatusCode(200)
            ->seeInDatabase('tracks', ['name' => 'FooBarBaz']);
    }

    /** @test */
    public function it_should_delete_tracks()
    {
        $track = factory(Track::class)->create(['name' => 'FooBar']);

        $this->actingAsAdmin()
            ->delete("api/admin/tracks/{$track->id}")
            ->seeStatusCode(204)
            ->notSeeInDatabase('tracks', ['id' => $track->id]);
    }
}

Nice!