How to fix a bug in a unit test?

Question

Laravel

The User class has this method:

public static function register(RegisterRequest $request):self
{
         return static::create([
             'name'=>$request->name,
             'email'=>$request->email,
             'password'=>Hash::make($request->password),
             'verify_token' => Str::random(),
             'status' => self::STATUS_WAIT,
         ]);
    }

This is how I try to test it:

public function create():void
    {
        $user=User::register($this->request);
        self::assertNotEmpty($user);
        self::assertEquals($this->name,$user->name);
        self::assertEquals($this->email,$user->email);
        self::assertNotEmpty($user->password);
        self::assertEquals($this->password,$user->password);
        self::assertTrue($user->isWait());
        self::assertFalse($user->isActive());
    }

This is how I create a RegisterRequest:

public function setUp(): void
    {
        parent::setUp();
        $this->request= $this->createMock(RegisterRequest::class);
        $this->request->name=$this->name;
        $this->request->email=$this->email;
        $this->request->password=$this->password;
    }

I am getting this error:

Caused by
ReflectionException: Class config does not exist

/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php:809
/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php:691
/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Application.php:796
/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php:637
/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Application.php:781
/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php:1284
/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/DatabaseManager.php:288
/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/DatabaseManager.php:101
/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/DatabaseManager.php:77
/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:1342
/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:1308
/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:1114
/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:1031
/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:1067
/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:1020
/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:1734
/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:1746
/www/app/app/Entity/User.php:84
/www/app/tests/Unit/RegisterTest.php:69

Refers to this line:
'status' => self::STATUS_WAIT,

Answer 1

These are not really unit tests. If you want to test unity - make mocks, drop statics and eloquent.
And the way you test is possible only with the initialization of the framework, i.e. it is necessary to extend from TestCase'a that lies in tests.