Testing with time

In many cases time is a crucial factor in dealing with business decisions. Testing time-based interactions can be a tedious task. The base test case (shipped in EventSauce) comes with some time-based tooling to help you out.

public function test_function()
{
    $clock = $this->clock();
    $currentTime = $this->currentTime();
}

The clock and currentTime methods are available to retrieve the EventSauce\EventSourcing\Time\Clock and EventSauce\EventSourcing\Time\PointInTime instances. The implementation of the Clock is the EventSauce\EventSourcing\Time\TestClock which can be fixated.

public function test_with_fixated_time()
{
    $this->clock()->fixate('2009-01-01 00:00:00');
}

Time in events

When time is crucial to your domain it makes sense to account for this in the domain. You’re free to use the PointInTime objects if those fit your needs, but you’re encouraged to create domain-specific object that model your case more closely.