Very specific test fix question

[samcoppock]

As I mentioned in other questions I am attempting to remove modifications from Winter CMS core files - including testing files.

One of the files I am trying to fix is
'tests/PluginTestCase.php' ( which is an old file which was replaced with 'modules/system/tests/bootstrap/PluginTestCase.php' )

To do this I started by moving all custom lines of code ( and nothing else ) to the new version of the file and clearly marking them as being our own code. ( so I could easily remove them later ) This left me with a blank 'tests/PluginTestCase.php' - none of our custom code was in it and none of the original october/winter code ( which as been moved to the new file ) was left in it

At this point my tests extended the old version of PluginTestCase.php which in turn now extends the new version of the file - effectively meaning I am only running current winter CMS code + our own custom code. And it worked.

This enabled to remove the custom code from 'modules/system/tests/bootstrap/PluginTestCase.php' back into 'tests/PluginTestCase.php' which no longer has any winter/october code in it and i have got to the point where there is just one thing left to remove from 'modules/system/tests/bootstrap/PluginTestCase.php'.

And its causing some issues

currently the part of 'modules/system/tests/bootstrap/PluginTestCase.php' which i need to remove out own code from looks like this

    public function createApplication()
    {
        $app = require __DIR__ . '/../../../../bootstrap/app.php';

        //THIS BLOCK BE FROM THE TESTS VERSION
        $app->singleton('execution.context', function ($app) {
            return 'front-end';
        });
        //END BLOCK

        $app->make('Illuminate\Contracts\Console\Kernel')->bootstrap();
        $app->make('Illuminate\Contracts\Console\Kernel')->bootstrap();

        // ...
    }

The problem is that our own code MUST come after '$app = require DIR . '/../../../../bootstrap/app.php';'
if it does not then we get a 'RuntimeException: A facade root has not been set.' error ( this happens when swapping $app-> to App:: )

But it must also come before '$app->make('Illuminate\Contracts\Console\Kernel')->bootstrap();' or else certain tests ( which send http requests ) return 500 instead of 200 status codes ( which is to be expected if the execution context is wrong.

Is there any way to set the execution context AFTER '$app->make('Illuminate\Contracts\Console\Kernel')->bootstrap();' has run?

on a side note

why does '$app->make('Illuminate\Contracts\Console\Kernel')->bootstrap();' get called twice?
is this a typo?