Factories And Seeds

How factories, seeders, and factory status fit into test and scenario validation.

Factories And Seeds

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

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.

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

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

Factory and seed tests usually matter when

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

Related pages

• Scenarios
• CLI Test Matrix
• NoSQL (Mongo)