Laravel 5 Unit Test - Call to a member function connection() on null

Question

I tried creating a unit test for the relationships between my User and Shop models, however when I run vendor\\\\bin\\\\phpunit this e

Answer 1

One more reason

check if the test class is extending use Tests\TestCase; rather then use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;

Laravel ships with the later, but Tests\TestCase class take care of setting up the application, otherwise models wont be able to communicate with the database if they are extending PHPunit\Framework\TestCase.