diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index e179aa0..925266e 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -42,5 +42,10 @@
     "php-http/mock-client": "^1.5",
     "php-http/message": "^1.0",
     "php-http/guzzle7-adapter": "^1.0"
+  },
+  "config": {
+    "allow-plugins": {
+      "pestphp/pest-plugin": true
+    }
   }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/src/Middleware/Trace.php b/src/Middleware/Trace.php
index a36eb4a..c4d0724 100644
--- a/src/Middleware/Trace.php
+++ b/src/Middleware/Trace.php
@@ -81,8 +81,15 @@ public function handle($request, Closure $next)
             $span->setAttribute('codecov.coverage', $coverage);
         }
 
-        $this->setSpanStatus($span, $response->status());
-        $this->addConfiguredTags($span, $request, $response);
+        //In the event we can't get a status, we just use code 520.
+        if(!method_exists($response, 'status')) {
+            $status = '520';
+        } else {
+            $status = $response->status();
+        }
+
+        $this->setSpanStatus($span, $status);
+        $this->addConfiguredTags($span, $request, $response, $status);
 
         $uri = $request->route() ? $request->route()->uri() : null;
         if($uri) {
@@ -105,9 +112,9 @@ private function setSpanStatus(Span $span, int $httpStatusCode)
         }
     }
 
-    private function addConfiguredTags(Span $span, Request $request, $response)
+    private function addConfiguredTags(Span $span, Request $request, $response, $status)
     {
-        $span->setAttribute('http.status_code', $response->status() ?? 'not passed');
+        $span->setAttribute('http.status_code', $status ?? 'not passed');
         $span->setAttribute('http.method', $request->method()) ?? 'not passed';
         $span->setAttribute('http.host', $request->root() ?? 'not passed');
         $span->setAttribute('http.target', '/'.$request->path() ?? 'not passed');
diff --git a/tests/Unit/TraceTest.php b/tests/Unit/TraceTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..774410e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Unit/TraceTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+<?php
+
+use Orchestra\Testbench\TestCase;
+use Illuminate\Http\Request;
+use Illuminate\Http\Response;
+use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\BinaryFileResponse;
+
+use Codecov\LaravelCodecovOpenTelemetry\Codecov\Exporter as CodecovExporter;
+use OpenTelemetry\Sdk\Trace\SpanProcessor\SimpleSpanProcessor;
+use OpenTelemetry\Sdk\Trace\TracerProvider;
+
+
+use Codecov\LaravelCodecovOpenTelemetry\Middleware\Trace as CodecovTrace;
+
+
+uses(TestCase::class);
+
+beforeEach(function () {
+    $config = testConfig();
+    config($config);
+});
+
+it('properly handles no status response', function(){
+    //mock a binary response. 
+    $response = Mockery::mock(BinaryFileResponse::class);
+
+    $request = Request::create('/example', 'GET');    
+
+    $provider = new TracerProvider();
+
+    $exporter = new CodecovExporter(
+        config('laravel_codecov_opentelemetry.service_name'),
+        config('laravel_codecov_opentelemetry.codecov_host'),
+        config('laravel_codecov_opentelemetry.profiling_token')
+    );
+
+    $tracer = $provider
+            ->addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor($exporter))
+            ->getTracer('io.opentelemetry.contrib.php')
+        ;
+
+    $traceMiddleware = new CodecovTrace($tracer);
+
+    $newResp = $traceMiddleware->handle($request, function() use($response) {
+        return $response;
+    });
+
+    //make sure we get our mocked response back and handle() hasn't blown up.
+    expect($newResp)->toBe($response);
+
+});
+
+it('properly handles a standard response', function(){
+    //mock a binary response. 
+    $response = Mockery::mock(Response::class)
+    ->shouldReceive('status')
+    ->andReturn('200');
+
+    $request = Request::create('/example', 'GET');    
+
+    $provider = new TracerProvider();
+
+    $exporter = new CodecovExporter(
+        config('laravel_codecov_opentelemetry.service_name'),
+        config('laravel_codecov_opentelemetry.codecov_host'),
+        config('laravel_codecov_opentelemetry.profiling_token')
+    );
+
+    $tracer = $provider
+            ->addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor($exporter))
+            ->getTracer('io.opentelemetry.contrib.php')
+        ;
+
+    $traceMiddleware = new CodecovTrace($tracer);
+
+    $newResp = $traceMiddleware->handle($request, function() use($response) {
+        return $response;
+    });
+
+    //make sure we get our mocked response back and handle() hasn't blown up.
+    expect($newResp)->toBe($response);
+
+});
+