Laravel 5 app always using 'testing' environment configuration

Question

I have a Laravel 5 app with two environments and two configurations: testing (for PHPUnit configuration, in-memory db) and local (my development configuration).

Even whe

Answer 1

1) open the config file database.php and add the following inside the 'connections' => [

'sqlite_testing' => [
    'driver'   => 'sqlite',
    'database' => ':memory:',
    'prefix'   => '',
],

this in memory sqlite will be used for your testing

2) open the .env file and make sure it has the following:

DB_CONNECTION=mysql

3) open phpunit.xml and add the following inside the tag:

here’s where you can add all the testing related env variables

4) in your tests were you use a database connection use the Database Migration Trait:

use DatabaseMigrations;

for more details about the DatabaseMigrations refer to the documentation https://laravel.com/docs/5.1/testing#resetting-the-database-after-each-test