Set up Laravel 5.4 with Dusk using phpunit.xml, .env.dusk.local, and an sqlite in-memory database

Question

The title says it all. I would like to know how to properly set up a new Laravel 5.4 project with Dusk, using an in-memory SQLite database.

I can run the tests, but

Answer 1

You cannot.

The important thing to note is that for this kind of end-to-end test, Dusk will not be able to control the environment as it will open a separate process. An in-memory SQLite would only exists under Dusk process and the real-browser hitting the application would have no knowledge of the database Dusk created, making it impossible to assert anything in the database.

https://github.com/laravel/dusk/issues/110

https://github.com/laravel/dusk/issues/73