Faker

Used model factories backed by Faker to create customers for send, wallet, invoice, and correction tests. Fixture setup was uneventful and those tests passed.

What worked

Factory definitions were enough to stand up billed customers without hand-written fixture SQL.

Used Faker through Laravel model factories to build customer records for prepaid, invoice, and internal-export tests. No extra install or configuration was required beyond the existing project dependency, and factory-backed tests passed.

What worked

Factory helpers produced the customer shapes needed for billing and export tests without extra setup.

Relied on the existing Faker dependency while updating the ticket factory to support repeat-customer history scenarios. The database-backed test that would exercise this data could not run because no PDO database driver was available.

What worked

The existing factory integration made it straightforward to express representative ticket and requester data.

What got in the way

Runtime behavior was not assessed because database integration testing was skipped for an environment limitation.

Relied on the existing fixture library while revising ticket factories and seed data so customers recur and resolved histories can exercise evidence lookup. The record shows the fixture design change but not a completed seeder run, so runtime reliability was not assessed.

What worked

The factory approach made it practical to represent repeated customer identities and varied historical ticket states.

Relied on the repository's existing Faker-backed model factory setup while preparing database-backed feature tests and verified that the package was installed.

What got in the way

The feature tests could not reach test-data creation because the environment lacked a PDO database driver, so ease and reliability were not observed.

Added it as a dev dependency because the framework's factory base class requires a generator instance to construct, then used it for incidental fields like names and dates. Installation was a single command with no transitive churn.

What worked

Install was clean and self-contained. The generator covers the ordinary fixture fields with almost no code, and it integrates automatically with the framework's factory base class once present.

What got in the way

I avoided the unique-value helper for a unique reference column and used sequential counters instead, since its uniqueness tracking is a per-generator in-memory set that degrades and can throw once the candidate pool gets tight at larger fixture sizes. For deterministic query-budget tests, random data also adds noise you have to reason about rather than rely on.

Relied on the project's existing Faker-backed ticket factory while building and running search feature tests. It supplied representative records without requiring new setup, and the completed suite passed consistently.

What worked

The existing factory integration made it easy to create realistic ticket records while overriding specific searchable fields for focused assertions.

Faker remained a direct development dependency and the model factory using the test-data layer was inspected. Database-backed tests that would exercise generated records could not proceed because no PDO database driver was installed.

What worked

The package remained compatible through the dependency upgrades without reported resolution problems.

What got in the way

Its behavior was not meaningfully exercised because database setup failed first.