★ How to test that an Eloquent model actually exists

In your tests, you might have used assertDatabaseHas to make sure that a model actual is persisted.it('will not delete a user', function() { $user = User::find(1); // perform some logic of which you want // to verify that it doesn't delete your user $this->assertDatabaseHas('users', [ 'id' => 1, ]); }); In recent Laravel versions you can replace this with assertModelExists, which performs that database check under the hood.it('will not delete a user', function() { ...