Behatch contexts

Behatch contexts provide most common Behat tests.

Installation

This extension requires:

• Behat 3+
• Mink
• Mink extension

Through PHAR

Download the .phar archives:

• behat.phar - Behat itself
• mink.phar - Mink framework
• mink_extension.phar - Mink integration extension
• behatch_contexts.phar - Behatch contexts

And activate it in your in your behat.yml:

# behat.yml
default:
    # ...
    extensions:
        behatch_contexts.phar: ~

Through Composer

The easiest way to keep your suite updated is to use Composer.

You can add Behatch contexts as dependencies for your project or rapidly bootstrap a Behatch projects.

Project dependency

1. Install Composer
2. Require the package with Composer:

$ composer require --dev behatch/contexts

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

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

Project bootstraping

1. Download the Behatch skeleton with composer:

$ php composer.phar create-project behatch/skeleton

Note

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

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

Translation