Behatch contexts

Behatch contexts provide most common Behat tests.

Installation

This extension requires:

Behat 3+
Mink
Mink extension

Project dependency

Install Composer
Require the package with Composer:

$ composer require --dev behatch/contexts

Activate extension by specifying its class in your behat.yml:

# behat.yml
default:
    # ...
    extensions:
        Behatch\Extension: ~

Project bootstraping

Download the Behatch skeleton with composer:

$ php composer.phar create-project behatch/skeleton

Browser, json, table and rest step need a mink configuration, see Mink extension for more information.

Usage

In behat.yml, enable desired contexts:

default:
    suites:
        default:
            contexts:
                - behatch:context:browser
                - behatch:context:debug
                - behatch:context:system
                - behatch:context:json
                - behatch:context:table
                - behatch:context:rest
                - behatch:context:xml

Examples

This project is self-tested, you can explore the features directory to find some examples.

Configuration

browser - more browser related steps (like mink)
- timeout - default timeout
debug - helper steps for debugging
- screenshotDir - the directory where store screenshots
system - shell related steps
- root - the root directory of the filesystem
json - JSON related steps
- evaluationMode - javascript "foo.bar" or php "foo->bar"
table - play with HTML the tables
rest - send GET, POST, ... requests and test the HTTP headers
xml - XML related steps

Configuration Example

For example, if you want to change default directory to screenshots - you can do it this way:

default:
    suites:
        default:
            contexts:
                - behatch:context:debug:
                    screenshotDir: "var"

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