CakePHP Fixture FactoriesWrite and run your tests faster.

Build expressive test fixtures with associations, scenarios, and pluggable data generators, for CakePHP and beyond.

Faster Tests, Less Boilerplate

Skip $fixtures arrays. The Factory Transaction Strategy wraps each test, rolls back automatically, and resets generator state.

Pick Faker (mature, full locales) or DummyGenerator (lean, PHP 8.3+, native enums). Or plug in your own.

One fluent expression builds the whole object graph, Articles → Authors → Address → City → Country, persisted in one go.

Generate factories from your schema with smart, configurable type guessing per column name and type.

Encapsulate complex test data, "10 Australian authors", "a checkout in progress", and load them in any test.

Strict generic type annotations across the codebase. Your factories pick up types correctly in any IDE.

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ArticleFactory::new()
    ->count(5)
    ->with('Authors[3].Address.City.Country')
    ->saveMany();

Five articles, each with three authors, each with an address, city and country, persisted in one expression.

This is a maintained fork of vierge-noire/cakephp-fixture-factories. The main breaking change is the generator abstraction, see the short migration guide.