Laravel 8, Model factory class not found

Question

so when using the new model factories class introduced in laravel 8.x, ive this weird issue saying that laravel cannot find the factory that corresponds to the model. i get

Answer 1

I was having this same issue, but for a different reason. If you're using factories in the setUp function of a test, make sure:

1. You're extending Tests\TestCase (instead of PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase)
2. The first line of your setUp function should be parent::setUp(); (I was missing this)