Behat Launcher

An application to launch your Behat tests from your browser:

Installation

To install Behat-Launcher, you will need:

• PHP 5.4
• Apache2 or Nginx or anything that can run a PHP application
• A MySQL database
• NodeJS and npm to install Bower and Grunt

1. Get the code

Go to folder where you want to install Behat-Launcher and clone the sourcecode through git command:

cd /var/www
git clone [email protected]:alexandresalome/behat-launcher.git
cd behat-launcher

2. Install dependencies

Behat-Launcher works with composer, a tool to manage dependencies.

Download it in behat-launcher folder:

cd /var/www/behat-launcher
curl http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
php composer.phar install

This command will download dependencies in vendor/ folder to make them available to the application.

Next you will need to install the assets using Bower and Grunt.

You can install these tools using npm, the NodeJS package manager:

npm install -g bower
npm install -g grunt-cli

You can now install the assets:

bower install
npm install
grunt

3. Configuration

In this folder, create a file config.php where you will configure your database and your projects.

You can use the config.php.dist file to get an exhaustive list of configuration features.

cd /var/www/behat-launcher
cp config.php.dist config.php
vi config.php # (or notepad, or whatever you use to edit this file)

4. Database

When you're done, initialize your database:

php behat-launcher init-db

5. WebServer

Now, configure your web server to make the application accessible through your webserver. Make it serve the web folder:

DocumentRoot /var/www/behat-launcher/web

Make sure web server has write access to data/ folder.

6. Background job

To run tests, Behat-Launcher needs to run jobs in background. Start it using:

cd /var/www/behat-launcher
php behat-launcher run

If you are using Linux, take a look at this gist to daemonize it.

This command will execute until you stop it. If you want command to stop after all units are ran, pass the --stop-on-finish option:

cd /var/www/behat-launcher
php behat-launcher run --stop-on-finish

You're done! Access your application through web server. Given you use Apache and only have this application set up, access http://localhost

Changelog

v0.1

• Restart one test, all tests or failed only
• Run multiple tests concurrently
• Relaunch whole run or just failed, or stop execution
• Override behat.yml configuration values
• Record additional formats (html, failed, progress, ...)
• View output while process is running