[Bug]: Example test fails after artisan optimize has been run

[jpmorby]

What Happened

Now this might be an expected fact, I'm kinda new to all of this .. but after running php artisan optimize running pest fails as follows

FAIL Tests\Feature\Auth\AuthenticationTest
✓ login screen can be rendered 0.27s
✓ users can authenticate using the login screen 0.99s
✓ users can not authenticate with invalid password 0.10s
⨯ users can logout

How to Reproduce

php artisan optimize
./vendor/bin/pest --ci

results in

FAILED Tests\Feature\Auth\AuthenticationTest > users can logout
The user is authenticated
Failed asserting that true is false.

at tests/Feature/Auth/AuthenticationTest.php:45
41▕ $user = User::factory()->create();
42▕
43▕ $response = $this->actingAs($user)->post('/logout');
44▕
➜ 45▕ $this->assertGuest();
46▕ $response->assertRedirect('/');
47▕ });

Tests: 1 failed, 26 passed (59 assertions)
Duration: 5.87s

php artisan optimize:clear
./vendor/bin/pest --ci

PASS Tests\Feature\Auth\AuthenticationTest
✓ login screen can be rendered 0.13s
✓ users can authenticate using the login screen 0.37s
✓ users can not authenticate with invalid password 0.09s
✓ users can logout 0.01s

Sample Repository

No response

Pest Version

3.7.4

PHP Version

8.4.4

Operation System

macOS

Notes

This is on Laravel 12.0.1

As a secondary note, the .gitlab-ci.yml on the Pest home page doesn't work ... I do now have a working one which I'd be happy to share (the cache entries don't cache the vendor folder, so there is no ./vendor/bin/pest after the build) - my updated version (with additional laravel specific bits) does work however