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Exceptions & Errors

Overview

Testing the behavior in PHP sometimes requires checking if an exception/error was thrown.

Writing a test to expect a test to throw an exception can be done as follows:

it('throws exception', function () {
    throw new Exception('Something happened.');
})->throws(Exception::class);

If you wish to assert the exception message too, you need to give a second argument to the throws method.

it('throws exception', function () {
    throw new Exception('Something happened.');
})->throws(Exception::class, 'Something happened.');