Created separate suite to test the database seeder functionality

Author: janhenkgerritsen

database/seeds/DatabaseSeeder.php

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ public function run()
 	{
 		Model::unguard();
 
-		// $this->call('UserTableSeeder');
+		 $this->call('UserTableSeeder');
 	}
 
 }

database/seeds/UserTableSeeder.php

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<?php
+
+use App\User;
+use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;
+
+class UserTableSeeder extends Seeder
+{
+    /**
+     * Run the database seeds.
+     *
+     * @return void
+     */
+    public function run()
+    {
+        User::create(['email' => 'johndoe@example.com', 'password' => bcrypt('password')]);
+    }
+}

tests/_support/Helper/Seeder.php

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+<?php
+namespace Helper;
+
+// here you can define custom actions
+// all public methods declared in helper class will be available in $I
+
+class Seeder extends \Codeception\Module
+{
+
+}

tests/_support/SeederTester.php

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+<?php
+
+
+/**
+ * Inherited Methods
+ * @method void wantToTest($text)
+ * @method void wantTo($text)
+ * @method void execute($callable)
+ * @method void expectTo($prediction)
+ * @method void expect($prediction)
+ * @method void amGoingTo($argumentation)
+ * @method void am($role)
+ * @method void lookForwardTo($achieveValue)
+ * @method void comment($description)
+ * @method \Codeception\Lib\Friend haveFriend($name, $actorClass = NULL)
+ *
+ * @SuppressWarnings(PHPMD)
+*/
+class SeederTester extends \Codeception\Actor
+{
+    use _generated\SeederTesterActions;
+
+   /**
+    * Define custom actions here
+    */
+}

tests/seeder.suite.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+class_name: SeederTester
+modules:
+    enabled:
+        - \Helper\Seeder
+        - Asserts
+        - Laravel5:
+            environment_file: .env.testing
+            run_database_seeder: true
+            database_seeder_class: DatabaseSeeder

tests/seeder/DatabaseSeederCest.php

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?php
+
+use App\User;
+
+class DatabaseSeederCest
+{
+    public function firstTest(SeederTester $I)
+    {
+        $I->assertCount(1, User::all());
+    }
+
+    public function secondTest(SeederTester $I)
+    {
+        $I->assertCount(1, User::all());
+    }
+}

tests/seeder/_bootstrap.php

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+<?php
+// Here you can initialize variables that will be available to your tests