Phpunit tests gives warning no tests found in class

Question

I am trying to learn how to test with phpunit and laravel. When start the test using phpunit command, I am getting a warning :

There was 1 failure:

1) Warning
No tests found in class "PostsTest".

FAILURES!                            
Tests: 2, Assertions: 1, Failures: 

My test classname and filename matches. I have read other problems about unmatching names. my filename is PostsTest.php and my test file :

class PostsTest extends ApiTester {


    public function it_fetches_posts()

    {
        $this->times(5)->makePost();

        $this->getJson('api/v1/posts');

        $this->assertResponseOk();

    }

    private function makePost($postFields=[])
    {
        $post = array_merge([
            'title' => $this->fake->sentence,
            'content' => $this->fake->paragragraph
        ], $postFields);

        while($this->times --)Post::create($post);
    }
}

if necessary my ApiTester :

use Faker\Factory as Faker;

class ApiTester extends TestCase {
    protected $fake;
    protected $times = 1;
    function __construct($faker)
    {
        $this->fake = Faker::create();
    }
}

I dont have any clue where the error is. Laravel or my local phpunit settings or anything else. Any helps is appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Annotations are the answer.

/** @test */
public function it_tests_something()
{
  ...
}

Adding that @test tells phpunit to treat the function as a test, regardless of the name.