Sometimes for beginners, the idea of PHPUnit testing code can be scary. You find yourself having to install the test framework, learn a whole new series of commands and methods, and half the time, you have no idea why it doesn’t work.

Fortunately, with Laravel 5.1, testing is incredibly easy, it is already integrated into the framework, ready to go, out of the box. To confirm this, you can run a simple command from the command line.