Behaviour driven development. Business logic.

Author

• Piotr Pelczar (me [at] athlan.pl)
• You can find me on: LinkedIn, Stack Overflow

Behat Scenarios

Scenarios are placed under /features/ directory. Each feature is describd by .feature file.

Run tests

To run all Behat scenarios, just run from application directory:

$ bin/behat

To run Behat scenarios from given tag, just run:

$ bin/behat --tags tag_name

where tag_name is your @tag_name tagged features.

Application

• User interface: http://localhost/symfony2-behat-example/web/app_dev.php/

• API interactive documentation: http://localhost/symfony2-behat-example/web/app_dev.php/api/doc/

• There are two users:

  Username	Password	Role
  Greg	a	User
  Katie	a	User

File locations

• You can find Behat configuration under:

  • /behat.yml - Definitions of Features groupped by Suites. Each suite uses contexts.
  • /features - List of features written in Gearman in *.feature files

• You can find possible sentences defined in Contexts:

  • /src/AppBundle/Behat/Context/WebContext.php
  • /src/App/ModuleUser/Bundle/ModuleUserBundle/Behat/Context/AuthenticationContext.php
  • https://github.com/Behat/MinkExtension/blob/master/src/Behat/MinkExtension/Context/MinkContext.php

• You can find fixtres (initial data) under:

  • /src/App/ModuleNotebook/Bundle/ModuleNotebookBundle/DataFixtures/ORM
  • /src/App/ModuleUser/Bundle/ModuleUserBundle/DataFixtures/ORM

• Sample features definitions under:

  • /features/landingpage/homepage.feature
  • /features/authorization/login.feature
  • /features/ModuleNotebookUi/notebook/list.feature
  • /features/ModuleNotebookUi/notebook/view.feature
  • /features/ModuleNotebookUi/notebook/update.feature
  • /features/ModuleNotebookUi/note/update.tag.feature

Acceptance tests

You should check these aspects:

• User interface:

  • Current page URL's and redirection URL's
  • Listing contents after CRUD operation
  • Response codes while testing security
  • Invalid values while submitting forms (CRUD)

• API:

  • Response codes
  • Response contents
  • Invalid values while CRUD

Virtualbox paths

Application code is under:

cd /var/www/html/symfony2-behat-example