How to connect a live database in setUpBeforeClass() and setUp() in phpunit?

Question

Laravel

I do not need to create a new database from migrations and all that, I just need to create / delete a user before testing.

class ApiUserCreateErrorsTest extends TestCase
{
public static function setUpBeforeClass(): void
    {
        parent::setUpBeforeClass(); 

        User::where('email', '[email protected]')->delete();
...

Swears like this
1) Tests\Unit\API\ApiUserCreateErrorsTest::testEmptyEmail
Error: Call to a member function connection() on null in /var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php: 1253

Answer 1

In setUp() this will work.