Foundry makes creating fixtures data fun again, via an expressive, auto-completable, on-demand fixtures system with Symfony and Doctrine:
$post = PostFactory::new() // Create the factory for Post objects
->published() // Make the post in a "published" state
->create([ // create & persist the Post object
'slug' => 'post-a' // This Post object only requires the slug field - all other fields are random data
])
;The factories can be used inside DoctrineFixturesBundle to load fixtures or inside your tests, where it has even more features.
Foundry supports doctrine/orm (with doctrine/doctrine-bundle),
doctrine/mongodb-odm (with doctrine/mongodb-odm-bundle)
or a combination of these.
Want to watch a screencast 🎥 about it? Check out https://symfonycasts.com/foundry
The AAA style of testing was first introduced to me by Adam Wathan's excellent Test Driven Laravel Course. The inspiration for this libraries API comes from Laravel factories and christophrumpel/laravel-factories-reloaded.