Configure and Test Laravel Task Scheduling

Question

Environment

• Laravel Version : 5.1.45 (LTS)

• PHP Version : 5.6.1

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Description

Answer 1

If you want to unit test the scheduling of events you can use this example. It is based on the default inspire command:

public function testIsAvailableInTheScheduler()
{
    /** @var \Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule $schedule */
    $schedule = app()->make(\Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule::class);

    $events = collect($schedule->events())->filter(function (\Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Event $event) {
        return stripos($event->command, 'YourCommandHere');
    });

    if ($events->count() == 0) {
        $this->fail('No events found');
    }

    $events->each(function (\Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Event $event) {
        // This example is for hourly commands.
        $this->assertEquals('0 * * * * *', $event->expression);
    });
}