Testing a Laravel package - php

Question

So, I'm writing a basic Laravel package and I seem to have stumbled upon yet another problem, this time with testing.
The package in development is currently in a packages folder in the root of the project. I have modified the composer.json file of the package to include the dependencies I need
"require-dev": {
"phpunit/phpunit": "~4.0",
"laravel/laravel": "dev-develop"
}
However , whenever I try running phpunit tests in the package folder (which contains a folder named tests along with a sample test), I get the following error:
PHP Fatal error: Class 'Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\TestCase' not found in /workspace/laravel/packages/sample/http-request/tests/HttpRequestTest.php on line 8
The test file is just the auto-generated stub:
<?php
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\WithoutMiddleware;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseMigrations;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseTransactions;
class HttpRequestTest extends Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\TestCase
{
/**
* A basic test example.
*
* #return void
*/
public function testExample()
{
$this->assertTrue(true);
}
}
Any idea why this isn't working? The app tests run without a hitch, but the app itself doesn't have dependencies other than what's in the box.
SOLUTION
Managed to make it work independently by extending the PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase:
class HttpRequestTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
However , running it like:
vendor/bin/phpunit packages/yourname/package-name/
Works as well, so I picked it as an answer.

Answer 1

This works for me:
class HttpRequestTest extends TestCase
And running test with:
vendor/bin/phpunit packages/yourname/package-name/

Answer 2

(Posted on behalf of the OP as an answer).
Managed to make it work independently by extending the PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase:
class HttpRequestTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
However , running it like:
vendor/bin/phpunit packages/yourname/package-name/
Works as well, so I picked it as an answer.

Answer 3

For Windows environments you need to use backslashes!
vendor\bin\phpunit packages\yourname\package-name

Answer 4

Create a directory named tests in your root of the package and write various test classes inside it. You can have all functioning of your package inside various methods in a single class or you can use multiple classes.
Move to your project's root and run following commands,
vendor/bin/phpunit packages/YOUR_DIRECTORY_NAME/PACKAGE_NAME
Wait a little and you will get the response for your test cases. No. of positive and negative tests will be shown.