What is the best way to run laravel unit tests before the deploy

[ps-20x]

I am currently not sure on what the best way is to run the unit tests. On one side I would like to do it as a first step but the containers are not done at that point.

What I want

• Run unit tests in a branch as soon as a file is pushed
• Run unit tests as soon as branch is merged to main
• Do not run follow-up-commands if unit tests fail

I would be really thankful if you could guide me in the right direction.

[jaydrogers]

Here is a good example to page through. It might not answer everything you're looking for, but it will show you an example how to get started: https://github.com/serversideup/financial-freedom/tree/main/.github/workflows

See how I have "actions" and "services"? I do that so I can reuse my pipeline code.

See action_pr-tests.yml and then how it calls service_install-and-test-php.yml.

My other actions reuse the code components too. Hope this helps!

[ps-20x]

Thanks for your quick reply and showing me an example. That's perfect. I just needed to create a .env.testing file and create an app-key. Thank you 🙇

One thing that I noticed on your project is:
The action_pr-tests.yml is referencing ./.github/workflows/service_tests-phpunit.yml which I actually can't find. Should that actually reference your service_install-and-test-php.yml?