Calling seeders in beforeAll

[mokhosh]

What Happened

Imagine if you have a large seeder that takes 5s to run, and you need to test 20 things after that seed.

If you seed at the beginning of each test you would be waiting a 100 seconds for those tests, but if you could run the seeder once, it will take about 5 seconds, which is a massive improvement.

Please provide a way for us to do this:

beforeAll(fn () => seed());

This is also mentioned in #237 and #246 and #33 (comment)
but sadly they are closed and ignored, but this seems to be a big pain point and a deal breaker for a lot of people.

How to Reproduce

Do beforeAll(fn () => seed()); in a pest test file and you will get this:

  assert(array_key_exists(self::FILE, $trace))

  at tests/Unit/SomeTest.php:7
      3▕ use function Pest\Laravel\assertDatabaseHas;
      4▕ use function Pest\Laravel\seed;
      5▕ 
      6▕ beforeAll(function () {
  ➜   7▕     seed();
      8▕ });

Pest Version

2.33.66

PHP Version

8.3.2

Operation System

macOS