behat

current state

468 631 installssince v2.2 (2011-12-14)

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Behat

1. parallel execution

2. growing contexts

– Me

“Context class is your domain dictionary for a specific actor”

– Me

“There’s only one context class for all your features.”

3. actor-based definitions

3 problems, 1 solution

you should be able to test features against different

contexts

v2.x architecture

profile

profile

.feature #1

profile

.feature #1

.feature #2

.feature #3

profile

.feature #1

.feature #2

.feature #3

Your Context class (+ Sub-Context classes)

Context class !

definitions transformations

hooks

Context class !

definitions transformations

hooksBehat

Context class !

definitions transformations

hooksBehat

profile

profile

suite #1

profile

suite #1

suite #2

Suite is a collection of features and their

test configuration

profile

suite #1

suite #2

.feature #1

.feature #2

Your Context class

profile

suite #1

suite #2

.feature #1

.feature #2

Your Context class

.feature #3

.feature #4

Your other Context class

profile

suite #1

suite #2

.feature #1

.feature #2

Your Context class

.feature #1

.feature #2

Your other Context class

suite configthrough behat.yml

suite configthrough behat.yml

stop! demo time.

contexts

profile

suite #1

suite #2

.feature #1

.feature #2

Your Context class

.feature #1

.feature #2

Your other Context class

profile

suite #1

suite #2

.feature #1

.feature #2

Your Context classes

.feature #1

.feature #2

Your other Context classes

contexts configthrough behat.yml

contexts configthrough behat.yml

demo

definitions matching

@When /^(?:|I )fill in "(?P<field>(?:[^"]|\\")*)" with "(?P<value>(?:[^"]|\\")*)"$/

regexp’s are hard

TurnipGherkin extension for RSpec

Turnip matchingthrough placeholders

@Given there is a monster called :name

@Given there is a monster called :nameGiven there is a monster called “Jake”

@Given there is a monster called :nameGiven there is a monster called “Jake” Given there is a monster called ‘Jake’

@Given there is a monster called :nameGiven there is a monster called “Jake” Given there is a monster called ‘Jake’ Given there is a monster called Jake

@Given there is a monster called :nameGiven there is a monster called “Jake” Given there is a monster called ‘Jake’ Given there is a monster called Jake

Given there is a monster called 23

@Given there is/are :count monster(s)

@Given there is/are :count monster(s)Given there is 1 monster

@Given there is/are :count monster(s)Given there is 1 monster

Given there are 5 monsters

@Given there is/are :count monster(s)Given there is 1 monster

Given there are 5 monsters Given there are no monsters

Turnip is a new default

both turnip and regex are supported

both turnip and regex are supported

inside same context class

SnippetsAcceptingContext

demo

Hooks are the 1st class citizens

hooks blowupin v2.x

demo

Formatters

rewritten from scratch

outline shows step that failed

outline steps expand

and 1000 other small improvements

output buffering

$this->printDebug(‘…’)

demo

Error handling levels

-v

exception handlingwith Mink or other integrations

exception handlingwith standard exceptions

-v is not --vv

how

continuous integrationthrough TravisCI

continuous integrationthrough Scrutinizer

v3in one picture

Testwork

last demo

next steps

3.0.0 rc3 releasedand it is gold version

behat.orgv2.0 is coming

extensionsupgrade

and release…

20 april

20 april 2014

big thanks to

Aslak Hellesøy

Creator of Cucumber

Christophe Coevoet

@stof

Questions?