Testing: $response->assertStatus() should print out the last error

[AlliBalliBaba]

When using feature tests that fail because of an error it's often not clear which error actually caused the failure. Instead when asserting a specific status code one just gets Expected response status code [xxx] but received 500 while the actual exception is hidden somewhere in the logs.

It would be useful if the last error that was thrown during that request was appended to the message. Debugging failed feature tests would become a lot easier.

This could be achieved by modifying the statusMessageWithDetails method in TestResponse.php

    protected function statusMessageWithDetails($expected, $actual)
    {
        $message = "Expected response status code [{$expected}] but received {$actual}.";
+       if ($actual === 500 && $exception = $this->exceptions->last()) {
+          $message .= PHP_EOL . "The following Exception was thrown during the last request:";
+          $message .= PHP_EOL . (string)$exception;
+       }

        return $message;
    }

I feel like exceptions were printed to the console in the past but maybe that was never the case. If this is generally something people care about I'll make a pull request.

[AlliBalliBaba]

Seems like this did indeed work in Laravel 10 and somehow broke in 11

[AlliBalliBaba]

I'll be closing this discussion since it seems to be a bug #51154