$touches property on Eloquent model really slows down testing - php

Question

Laravel Version: 7.26.1
PHP Version: 7.4.9
Database Driver & Version: MySql 8.0.21
Description:
Am I working on a project that mostly consists of belongsTo and hasMany relationships which I cache using a trick I learned a long time ago from this post Laravel Model Caching. Now the problem is when I run a test PHPUnit freezes or maybe takes to a long time to run a single test because I waited for an hour plus, but if I comment the the $touches property the test runs just fine. Now I cant comment out all the $touches property in all my models every time I want to test so my question is, what do I do, is it possible to turn it off during testing?
Steps To Reproduce:
Model
<?php
namespace App;
use App\Contracts\CacheableModelInterface;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Laravel\Scout\Searchable;
class Country extends Model implements CacheableModelInterface
{
use Searchable,
Concerns\HasSlug,
Concerns\HasCache,
Concerns\HasManyRegions,
Concerns\HasManyProvinces,
Concerns\HasManyLocalGovernmentAreas,
Concerns\HasManyCities,
Concerns\HasManyVillages;
/**
* The relationships that should be touched on save.
*
* #var array
*/
protected $touches = ['regions', 'provinces', 'localGovernmentAreas', 'cities', 'villages'];
/**
* The attributes that are mass assignable.
*
* #var array
*/
protected $fillable = [
'name', 'longitude', 'latitude', 'iso_code', 'calling_code'
];
/**
* Get the indexable data array for the model.
*
* #return array
*/
public function toSearchableArray()
{
return [
'id' => $this->id,
'name' => $this->name,
];
}
}
Repository
public function getRelationshipBelongingTo(string $name, string $relationship)
{
return ($this->model->where("name->".app()->getLocale(), $name)
->firstOrFail())
->{$relationship};
}
Controller
// CountryController.php
...
public function provinces(string $locale, string $name)
{
try {
$this->checkLocale($locale);
app()->setLocale($locale);
$provinces = $this->repository
->getRelationshipBelongingTo($name, 'cached_provinces');
return response()->json([
'success' => true,
'provinces' => new ProvinceCollection($provinces)
]);
} catch (ModelNotFoundException $exception) {
return response()->json([
'success' => false,
'message' => "No country named '{$name}' was found in the {$this->localeFullName($locale)} database."
]);
} catch (InvalidLocaleException $exception) {
return response()->json([
'success' => false,
'message' => $exception->getMessage()
]);
}
}
Test
/**
* #test
*/
public function can_return_provinces_belonging_to_country()
{
$country = $this->createCountry();
// Region is going to be needed in the factory when creating Province
// files so we need to have at least one present.
factory(\App\Region::class, 1)->create();
$provinces = $country->provinces()->saveMany(factory(\App\Province::class, 3)->make());
$response = $this->getJson($this->route."/{$country->name}/provinces");
$response->assertJsonStructure([
'success', 'provinces'
]);
$responseProvinces = $response->json('provinces');
$this->assertEquals($provinces->count(), collect($responseProvinces)->count());
$response->assertOk();
}