Testing in laravel against MySql

Hello i m testing in laravel 5.5 an api using Mysql as database and DatabaseTransactions.

Suppose that i have a model Team which may be active or inactive and i want to test getting an inactive Team.

$team = Team::inactive()->inRandomOrder()->first(); $response = $this->json('post',route('teams.show',$team->id); $reponse ->assertStatus(404);

This piece of code is problematic if there is no inactive team in my fake seeded database. So what s the best approach here ?

1)Should i make sure i seed database with an inactive team ?
2) Should i make an assertion after first line and if $team==null i make team inactive for the purpose of testing .
3)Use factory during tests and create fake data ?

The only reason i avoided 3 for the time being is that in more complex relationships with foregin keys i have to seed 3-4 tables