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Factories And Seeds

Factories and seeds are part of the test and scenario workflow.

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What factories are for

Factories are used for:
  • seed generation
  • scenario generation
  • test fixtures
  • runtime demo and validation flows
They are not the primary public CRUD surface.

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Typical commands

eloquent make:factory User --test
eloquent make:seed User --count 10 --test
eloquent db:seed --test --class BlogScenarioSeeder
eloquent factory:status --details --test
eloquent factory:status --graph --test

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What should be validated

  • factory registration
  • generated seed output
  • graph/status output
  • test-targeted paths under src/test
  • driver-targeted seed behavior for SQL and Mongo flows

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Factory and seed tests usually matter when

  • model schema changed
  • seed output changed
  • scenario generation changed
  • factory registration or import behavior changed