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From Install to JS Testing

7:27
02

BDD Features

5:56
03

Scenarios

4:24
04

Behat

6:08
05

Behat Hooks Background

6:49
06

Mink

3:30
07

Finding Elements by CSS and Name

6:48
08

Behat Loves Mink (Free Definitions from MinkExtension)

2:56
09

Scenario Outline

2:10
10

Mink Session inside FeatureContext

6:00
11

Context Organization and Behat Suites

4:03
12

Building a Login Scenario

3:57
13

Controlling the Database

4:24
14

The SymfonyExtension & Clearing Data Between Scenarios

5:13
15

Practice: Find Elements, Login with 1 Step and Debug

6:51
16

When *I* do Something: Handling the Current User

4:10
17

Practicing BDD: Plan, then Build

8:09
18

Master JavaScript with Waits & Debugging

6:16
19

Debugging and Taking Screenshots with JavaScript

3:33
20

Gherkin Tables: Given I have the following:

4:37
21

Finding inside HTML Tables

2:20
22

Clicking a Row in a Table (i.e. Complex Selectors)

8:55
23

Tagging Scenarios in order to Load Fixtures

5:16

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Soltan 7 years ago

I have no /app/ directory in my framework, how should I download it?
require_once __DIR__.'/../../app/autoload.php'; => this line is not compiling because of missing /app/

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MolloKhan SFCASTS Soltan 7 years ago edited

Hey Soltan

That "app" folder doesn't exist anymore since Symfony4, so don't worry if you dont have it. Instead of requiring app/autoload.php you should require composer's autoload -> rootApp/vendor/autoload.php

Cheers!

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Soltan MolloKhan 7 years ago

I installed Behat\Symfony2Extension: as in tutorial but when I run feature file I have this error:
Class AppKernel does not exist
How can I fix it?

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MolloKhan SFCASTS Soltan 7 years ago edited

Ohh, yes, you have to specify from where to load the Kernel. You need to add something like this into your behat.yml file


  extensions:
    Behat\Symfony2Extension:
      kernel:
        class: App\AppKernel   # Adjust this to your needs (This is the FQNS of your Kernel class)

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Wahab Qureshi 7 years ago

Think thats a bit too many steps to follow. use this extension to make your lives easier http://inevitabletech.uk/bl...

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tomhv 8 years ago

Hey Ryan,

I've just started a Symfony 4 app (actually skeleton on 3.4). Is this still the "right way" to handle persisting users before testing them?

Cheers,

Tom

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MolloKhan SFCASTS tomhv 8 years ago edited

Hey tomhv

There is an easier way to setup your Symfony's container by installing & configuring the symfony-behat extension https://github.com/Behat/Sy...
But at the end, the process is the same, you have to fetch the "EntityManager", call persist on the user's object, and finally call "$em->flush()"

Cheers!

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Daka 8 years ago

ok here I get this error:
┌─ @BeforeSuite # FeatureContext::bootstrapSymfony()
│
╳ There is no extension able to load the configuration for "swiftmailer" (in app/config/config_test.yml). Looked for namespace "swiftmailer", found "framework", "security", "twig", "monolog", "doctrine", "sensio_framework_extra", "knp_markdown", "doctrine_cache", "doctrine_migrations", "debug", "web_profiler", "sensio_distribution", "doctrine_fixtures" (Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Exception\InvalidArgumentException)

after adding:

/**
* @BeforeSuite
*/
public static function bootstrapSymfony(){
require_once __DIR__.'/../../app/autoload.php';
require_once __DIR__.'/../../app/AppKernel.php';
$kernel = new AppKernel('test', true);
$kernel->boot();
self::$container = $kernel->getContainer();
}

$user = new \AppBundle\Entity\User();
$user->setUsername($username);
$user->setPlainPassword($password);
$user->setRoles(array('ROLE_ADMIN'));

$em = self::$container->get('doctrine')->getManager();
$em->persist($user);
$em->flush();

I think something with new AppKernel ?

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Victor SFCASTS Daka 8 years ago

Hey Daka,

Hm, looks like Swiftmailer bundle is not enabled for test environment. Do you enable it for all environment or only for test in AppKernel.php?

Cheers!

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Stefano Giraldo 8 years ago edited

Hi, very interesting tutorial!
However I have a question:

Why not to use KernelAwareContext offered by Behat Symfony2Extension?

Implementing then


public function setKernel(KernelInterface $kernel)
    {
    $this->kernel = $kernel;
}

you have the Symfony Kernel available along the Context Class.

Thanx

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Victor SFCASTS Stefano Giraldo 8 years ago

Hey Stefano,

Nice catch! Well, it's just due to teaching purposes. It's one of the possible ways to bootstrap Symfony kernel, actually, we show what exactly Symfony2Extension do behind the scene. But you're right, your way is simpler. And we show the example you mentioned in the next chapter, see https://knpuniversity.com/s... - but we use KernelDictionary trait instead, which is even more simple than implementing KernelAwareContext ;)

Cheers!

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Stefano Giraldo Victor 8 years ago

Thank you Victor, KernelDictionary is interesting too!

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ShaunDychko 8 years ago

In order for the User class to be recognized I had to use "$user = new \AppBundle\Entity\User();"

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weaverryan SFCASTS ShaunDychko 8 years ago

Hey Shaun!

Actually, what you have will *definitely* work (as you know). What you don't see in my example is that (thanks to PhpStorm) as soon as I auto-complete the User class, it added a "use AppBundle\Entity\User" to the top of the class. So if you have that "use" statement, you can have the short version like mine. But, both work :).

Cheers!

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Victor 8 years ago

Fatal error: Class 'AppBundle\Entity\User'

This is the error i receive although i used "use AppBundle\Entity\User; " at the top. Any idea?

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Victor SFCASTS Victor 8 years ago

Hey Victor,

It's not entirely clear what error, I suppose you trimmed it in the most interesting place :) Is it "Fatal error: Class 'AppBundle\Entity\User' not found"? Or is it a different error like you have invalid syntax/missing semi-colon/misprint in that class. So it depends. Please, double check that AppBundle\Entity\User class doesn't have syntax problem - PhpStorm could help with it. Also, does that class have "namespace AppBundle\Entity;"? Is class name "User"? Does this class have src/AppBundle/Entity/User.php path in your file system? Also look closer at letter case.

Cheers!

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This tutorial uses a very old version of Symfony. The fundamentals of Behat are still valid, but integration with Symfony will be different.

Symfony 2 Behat 3

What PHP libraries does this tutorial use?

// composer.json
{
    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.4.0, <7.3.0",
        "symfony/symfony": "^2.7", // v2.7.4
        "twig/twig": "^1.22", // v1.22.1
        "sensio/framework-extra-bundle": "^3.0", // v3.0.16
        "doctrine/doctrine-bundle": "^1.5", // v1.5.1
        "doctrine/orm": "^2.5", // v2.5.1
        "doctrine/doctrine-fixtures-bundle": "^2.2", // v2.2.1
        "behat/symfony2-extension": "^2.0" // v2.0.0
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "behat/mink-extension": "^2.0", // v2.0.1
        "behat/mink-goutte-driver": "^1.1", // v1.1.0
        "behat/mink-selenium2-driver": "^1.2", // v1.2.0
        "phpunit/phpunit": "^4.8" // 4.8.18
    }
}

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