[Bug]: All Feature tests are marked as WARNING when the .env file is missing

[josecl]

What Happened

In local enviroment is not a big deal, but in CI/CD is problematic because there are not FAILING tests and the problem is unnoticed.

   PASS  Tests\Unit\ExampleTest
  ✓ that true is true

   WARN  Tests\Feature\ExampleTest
  ! it returns a successful response → file_get_contents(/Users/jose/desa/laravel-11/.env): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory                                    0.07s

  Tests:    1 warning, 1 passed (2 assertions)
  Duration: 0.11s

How to Reproduce

• Install a fresh Laravel 11
• remove .env
• update phpunit.xml adding APP_KEY, e.g. <env name="APP_KEY" value="base64:WYlqeJ/LNzXXke2rnMdo1cPWUk2yHAOPcz/qwJORJFM="/>
• run pest

Sample Repository

No response

Pest Version

2.34.8, 3.1.0 and 3.2.3

PHP Version

8.2 and 8.3

Operation System

macOS

Notes

No response

[OrbisK]

might be related to: #1028

[OrbisK]

Workaround:
touch .env as before_script