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Behatch contexts provide most common Behat tests.

Installation

This extension requires:

• Behat 3+
• Mink
• Mink extension

Project dependency

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

$ composer require --dev behatch/contexts

1. 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

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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