How to test the queueing mail ?

[guitarbien]

Hi, everyone

I'm wondering if we use queue or job to handle a business logic, should we have to care about adding to the queue correctly and write the test for that, or we could use something like FakeQueue for testing is enough ?

What if we use Mail::queue() or Mail::later() to send a mail. Should mail::assertSent() work with that ?

Wish Adam will talk about queue / job implement and testing detail in the future.

Thanks.

[tomschlick]

I'm sure Adam will touch on it at some point but there is a Queue::fake() method that works similar to Mail::fake()

https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/mocking#queue-fake

[guitarbien]

wow thank you ! I didn't notice that, I'll give it a try.

[LostKobrakai]

I think it's like with Stripe. Test your queue implementation(s) with contract tests, and use a Fake implementation anywhere else.