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title: 'You can use $this->mock in Pest tests'
tweet_id: '1505269906157187072'
thread_slug: weekly-thread-2022-11
author_username: enunomaduro
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created_at: 2022-03-19T19:48:06+00:00
slug: you-can-use-this-gtmock-in-pest-tests
---
Within your Pest / PHPUnit tests, you may use @laravelphp's "mock" method to instruct the container to use your mocked instance of the object instead of constructing the object itself. ✅