Behat-Laravel

Behat-Laravel is a solution test your application using the BDD methodology.

Features:

Current:

Create the folder structure to for receiving the Acceptance tests.
Run the acceptance test.
Ingration with Zizaco/TestCases-Laravel, that provide the useful methods test your application.

Quick start:

Required setup

In the require key of composer.json file add the following:

"guilhermeguitte/behat-laravel": "dev-master"

Run the Composer update comand

$ composer update

In your config/app.php add 'GuilhermeGuitte\BehatLaravel\BehatLaravelServiceProvider' to the end of the $providers array

'providers' => array(

    'Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\ArtisanServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Auth\AuthServiceProvider',
    ...
    'GuilhermeGuitte\BehatLaravel\BehatLaravelServiceProvider',

),

Install selenium.

http://docs.seleniumhq.org/download/

Commands

Now generate the Behat's structure folder using the follow artisan's command:

$ php artisan behat:install

You can pass the test path if you not using the app/tests which folder`s test.

$ php artisan behat:install --test_path==your/test/path

Generating Documentation

You can create a document in html just run:

$ php artisan behat:html # will create a file at application's root

$ php artisan behat:html --out path/you/need/doc.html # will create a file specified path

Structure

http://docs.behat.org/

Adding Contexts

When you create a contextat folder tests\acceptance\contexts this files will be included at FeatureContext preventing the specification of files that will used to tests.

$ php artisan behat:feature --name=NameOfFeature

Will create:

    app\tests\acceptance\contexts\NameOfFeatureContext.php
    app\tests\acceptance\features\name_of_feature\name_of_feature.feature

Running tests

To run all test, you can use the follow command:

$ php artisan behat:run

To run tests for specific features, you can specify the name of the folder or the .feature file:

$ php artisan behat:run name_of_feature
$ php artisan behat:run name_of_feature/name_of_feature.feature
$ php artisan behat:run name_of_feature/separated_scenarios.feature

Laravel behat currently supports the following command line options from behat:

 --format (-f)        How to format features. pretty is default.
                      Default formatters are:
                      - pretty: Prints the feature as is.
                      - progress: Prints one character per step.
                      - html: Generates a nice looking HTML report.
                      - junit: Generates a report similar to Ant+JUnit.
                      - failed: Prints list of failed scenarios.
                      - snippets: Prints only snippets for undefined steps.

 --no-snippets        Do not print out snippets
 --profile (-p)       Specify config profile to use.

License

Behat-Laravel is free software distributed under the terms of the MIT license

jasperboyd / behat-laravel