Laravel 8, Model factory class not found

Question

so when using the new model factories class introduced in laravel 8.x, ive this weird issue saying that laravel cannot find the factory that corresponds to the model. i get

Answer 1

I'm in the process of migrating from laravel 7 to 8.

After banging my head against the wall for a while and looking at the source code, I saw that you can optionally override what factory class gets called for a model using the newFactory method on the model.

I also then noticed that it IS in the documentation (https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/database-testing#creating-models) - I just didn't understand what it meant the first time I read it. Now I do.

I solved this by the following:

After this change, my tests passed as expected.