Behat Shell

Shell for testing CakePHP Application using Behat

Installation

Behat Shell is installed use Composer.

Ensure require is present in composer.json. This will install the plugin to Plugin/Behat. You should also add either behat/mink-goutte-driver or behat/mink-selenium2-driver to your requirements, depending on which one you plan to use with Behat Shell.

{
    "require": {
        "wolg/behat": "*",
        "phpunit/phpunit": "*",
        "cakephp/cakephp": "2.*",
        "behat/behat": "2.4.*@stable"
    }
}

• Add the plugin to your app/Config/bootstrap.php using CakePlugin::load('Behat')
• Run Console/cake Behat.behat install to install plugin
• Set your application root url into app/Config/behat.yml
• Run Console/behat -dl to be sure that everything properly loaded

But I don't use Composer?

That's fine, the process is laregly the same. However, instead of downloading Behat Shell using composer, you'll need to unzip or clone this plugin into your app/Plugin/Behat folder. After that, follow the rest of the steps outlined in the previous section. Don't worry about dependencies, we'll download those for you.

Requirements

• PHP version: PHP 5.3+
• CakePHP version: 2.x
• PHPUnit

Further Reading

• Quick Intro to Behat - Read Quick Intro Guide.
• Practical BDD with Behat and Mink - An introduction into behavior-driven development with Behat and Mink.
• Behat Documentation - Read Behat2 Documentation Guides.
• Behat by example - Check presentation from the creator.
• Mink Documentation - Read about Mink and Web acceptance testing.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request