Laravel Repro

Turn real Laravel failures into reproducible regression tests.

Laravel Repro is under active development and is not yet recommended for production use.

About

Laravel Repro captures failed Laravel HTTP requests, removes sensitive information and stores them as reproducible cases.

Captured cases can be converted into Pest regression tests.

Request + Exception → Sanitization → Storage → Pest Test

Requirements

• PHP 8.3 or newer
• Laravel 13
• Composer

Installation

Install the package through Composer:

composer require faveroo/laravel-repro

Publish the configuration:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=repro-config

Enable failure capturing in your .env file:

LARAVEL_REPRO_ENABLED=true

Clear the configuration cache:

php artisan config:clear

Middleware

Register the middleware in bootstrap/app.php:

use Faveroo\LaravelRepro\Middleware\CaptureFailures;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Configuration\Middleware;

->withMiddleware(function (Middleware $middleware): void {
    $middleware->append(CaptureFailures::class);
})

Keep any middleware already registered in the existing withMiddleware callback.

Usage

After an HTTP failure is captured, list the stored reproduction cases:

php artisan repro:list

Limit the number of displayed cases:

php artisan repro:list --limit=10

Generate a Pest regression test:

php artisan repro:test <case-id>

Laravel Repro will not overwrite an existing test unless --force is provided:

php artisan repro:test <case-id> --force

Generated tests are stored in the path configured by repro.test_path.

Always review generated tests before committing them. Redacted values may need to be replaced with fixtures from your application.

Pest

The consuming Laravel application must have Pest installed to execute generated tests:

composer require pestphp/pest pestphp/pest-plugin-laravel --dev --with-all-dependencies
vendor/bin/pest --init

Failure capturing is disabled automatically while the application is running in the testing environment, even when LARAVEL_REPRO_ENABLED is true. You can also enforce the disabled setting in phpunit.xml:

<env
    name="LARAVEL_REPRO_ENABLED"
    value="false"
    force="true"
/>

Capture can be enabled intentionally during tests with:

LARAVEL_REPRO_CAPTURE_IN_TESTING=true

This option is intended primarily for integration tests of the failure-capture mechanism itself.

Security

Laravel Repro minimizes the amount of sensitive information stored:

• Capturing is disabled by default.
• Only configured headers are captured.
• Passwords, tokens, secrets and API keys are recursively redacted.
• Exception messages are omitted by default.
• Absolute filesystem paths are converted to project-relative paths.
• Exception classes can be ignored through configuration.

Captured data should be stored on a protected filesystem and must not be committed to version control.

Development

Install the dependencies:

composer install

Run all quality checks:

composer lint
composer analyse
composer test

Format the code:

composer format

License

Laravel Repro is open-source software licensed under the MIT License.