Testing concurrent requests

[nandi95]

I have some code sensitive to a race condition, I added in some logic to lock with the cache, but I do not know how to test this automatically. Can we have some logic added to src/Illuminate/Foundation/Testing/Concerns/MakesHttpRequests.php so it allows "sending" multiple requests? I imagine the interface would be similar to Http::pool perhaps?

[AliBayat]

I'm facing the exact situation, would be nice if some wrapper can add that to native phpunit http methods

[AliBayat]

since my issue was arising as I was executing things in a dispatched job,
so far I have come up with the following workaround on the testing matter:

• setup an asynchronous job driver handler (rabbitMQ in my case) for the testing environment and set it up in .env.testing
• asserting the outcome of dispatching jobs without race conditions
• asserting that multiple requests to a certain part of the system get only one 200-status

note: this is not an ideal solution as I rather use a sync driver for my testing pipeline

[HasanMothaffar]

I'm in the same situation but using lockForUpdate. I thought of using HTTP:pool but on this page https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/http-tests#validation-assertions it says this:

"In general, each of your tests should only make one request to your application. Unexpected behavior may occur if multiple requests are executed within a single test method."

[nandi95]

I don't know what kind of unexpected behaviors there could be as side effects in the logic are expected.
Http::pool would make an actual request, whereas when you run $this->postJson(... it will emulate the application by creating a request and running the request through the app as it normally would.