Testing Laravel 5.1 View facade?

Question

Unit testing

There is a getIndex method for HomeController:

public function getIndex()
{
    return \View::make('home');
}

In routes:

Route::get('/', ['as' => 'home', 'uses' => '[email protected]']);

And the simplest test for it:

<?php

use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\WithoutMiddleware;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseMigrations;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseTransactions;

class HomeControllerTest extends TestCase
{
    public function testIndexPage()
    {
    	\View::shouldReceive('make')->with('home')->andReturn('test');

    	$response = $this->action('GET', '[email protected]');

    	$this->assertResponseOk();
    	$this->assertEquals('test', $response->content());
    }
}

But for some reason it returns the 500th error:

What could be the problem?

Answer 1

I tested this code on L5:

<?php

use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\WithoutMiddleware;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseMigrations;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseTransactions;

class HomeControllerTest extends TestCase
{
    public function testIndexPage()
    {
      \View::shouldReceive('make')->with('home')->andReturn('test');
      View::shouldReceive('share');

      $response = $this->action('GET', '[email protected]');

      $this->assertResponseOk();
      $this->assertEquals('test', $response->getContent());
    }
}

Errors that were:
- You need to mock the share method, it is called somewhere.
In general, I see no reason to test the View facade - there is nothing to test there.