Lumen is not migrating package tables when executing phpunit - laravel

Question

In my Lumen app, when I execute
php artisan migrate --seed
it works well.
But when I try to run my tests with phpunit, it doesn't run migration from a Laravel package that I coded, so all tests fail
I run my migrations in my test with :
Artisan::call('migrate');
I use in memory testing for faster running.
Here is my Lumen app Testcase.php
abstract class TestCase extends Laravel\Lumen\Testing\TestCase
{
/** #var array */
protected $dispatchedNotifications = [];
protected static $applicationRefreshed = false;
/**
* Creates the application.
*
* #return \Laravel\Lumen\Application
*/
/**
* Creates the application.
*
*/
public function createApplication()
{
return self::initialize();
}
private static $configurationApp = null;
public static function initialize()
{
$app = require __DIR__ . '/../bootstrap/app.php';
if (is_null(self::$configurationApp)) {
$app->environment('testing');
if (config('database.default') == 'sqlite') {
$db = app()->make('db');
$db->connection()->getPdo()->exec("pragma foreign_keys=1");
}
Artisan::call('migrate');
Artisan::call('db:seed');
self::$configurationApp = $app;
}
return $app;
}
/**
* Refresh the application instance.
*
* #return void
*/
protected function forceRefreshApplication()
{
if (!is_null($this->app)) {
$this->app->flush();
}
$this->app = null;
self::$configurationApp = null;
self::$applicationRefreshed = true;
parent::refreshApplication();
}
...
In my package, I use in the boot method of service provider:
$this->loadMigrationsFrom(__DIR__.'/../database/migrations');
and then a test example:
class TournamentsTest extends TestCase
{
use DatabaseTransactions, AttachJwtToken;
protected $initialTournamentNum = 6;
protected $defaultPagintation = 25;
protected $user;
/** #test */
public function user_can_see_tournament_list()
{
$response = $this
->call('GET', '/tournaments');
$this->assertEquals(HttpResponse::HTTP_OK, $response->status());
}
...
All my test fail with:
PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1 no such table: ken_venue
ken_venue is a table that come from the laravel package
In fact, I have this same package working well in a Laravel 5.7 application. but I am migrating this app to a Lumen app.
Any idea why is it happening ?

Answer 1

A few remarks first:
Your test function does not start with test, for me in Laravel such tests would not execute.
Second try this to run the seeds instead of calling migrate and seed by hand
namespace Tests\Unit;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseMigrations;
use Tests\TestCase;
class ShippingCostTest extends TestCase
{
use DatabaseMigrations; // call migrations this way
public function testDoesApply() // start your function with the word 'test'
$this->assertTrue(true); // call assert functions
}
protected function setUp() // use this function for setup
{
parent::setUp();
$this->seed(); // call this for seeding
}
}
Third: do you use the same databast type (e.g. MySQL in both cases), because of you use sqlite for testing the syntax might break all of the sudden because of differences between systems.