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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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SirPL 7 years ago edited

I'm facing a weird problem with find I have the following piece of code:
$page = $this->getSession()->getPage();<br />var_dump($page->getContent());<br />var_dump($page->find('css', 'html'))
The best thing is that the first var_dump prints HTML content of the page (with <html></html> tags), but the latter returns null. When I change the function to findAll - empty array is returned.
I am using behat/behat 3.5.0, behat/gherkin 4.6.0, behat/mink 1.7.1, behat/mink-browserkit-driver 1.3.3, behat/mink-extension 2.3.1, and seleniumServer 3.141.59 with ChromeDriver 75.0.3770.100

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MolloKhan SFCASTS SirPL 7 years ago edited

Hey SirPL

Can you find any other element than HTML?

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Soltan 7 years ago

Which method can I use to fill the blanks on the web Page?

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MolloKhan SFCASTS Soltan 7 years ago edited

If you are using Mink (I believe you do), you can call the fillField() method

Cheers!

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Arturas-Alfredas Lapinskas 8 years ago

Looks like Mink can be good to make bots, and parsers?

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weaverryan SFCASTS Arturas-Alfredas Lapinskas 8 years ago

Yea, it would be great for this - especially if you needed those bots to interact with pages that use JavaScript - that's a lot more powerful than just a parser that parses links and follows them :).

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Johnatas Montezuma 8 years ago

How to use CSS selectors when user Behat Drupal? I dont see a mink.php file in the root when installing, but behal.yml has Drupal\DrupalExtension\Context\MinkContext

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Victor SFCASTS Johnatas Montezuma 8 years ago

Hey Johnatas,

I'm 99% sure it's the same! Actually, mink.php in this tutorial is just a playground. First of all, you need to get session, and then you can get the page from it. Try this in your Behat context file:

$page = $this->getSession()->getPage();

And then you can call find() method on $page as we do in this screencast.

Cheers!

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Agnes 8 years ago

Actually the page is completely different now. I'm getting the 1st link however clicking it via Selenium driver fails with "PHP Fatal error: Uncaught WebDriver\Exception\ElementNotVisible: element not visible" error.

I just think the page is refreshing because of ads which is causing the error.

Instead I started from the Wiki Activity page (no ads) and looked for the first link in the content area since it was still complaining about the secondary navigation links not being visible.

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Victor SFCASTS Agnes 8 years ago edited

Hey Maria,

Ah, what a bummer! We're sorry for the inconvenience, but it was something not related from us directly. We're working on a fix for this and will update the code soon. Thanks for letting us know! Actually, not a big deal, you just need to use a different of "Wiki Activity" link, because this one is hidden (it's shown only when you hover over the "Explore" menu item). So, to follow our example, you can look for the first link in the menu which is "Books" and which is visible by default, you can easily find it with ".wds-tabs li a" selector, or just use:


// Use:
$subNav = $page->find('css', '. wds-tabs');
$linkEl = $subNav->find('css', 'li a');
// Or just:
$linkEl = $page->findLink('Books');

Also, latest versions of Firefox (which is used by default) could not work properly, that's why I recommend to use Google Chrome instead as a Selenium2 driver, you can specify it as the first parameter to Selenium2Driver class:


$driver = new Selenium2Driver('chrome');

Cheers!

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Beo 8 years ago

They must have watched this tutorial... now the h1 is an h2... :(

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weaverryan SFCASTS Beo 8 years ago

Bah! The folly of using external sites. Thanks for the note!

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weaverryan SFCASTS weaverryan 8 years ago

I've updated the script + code blocks for this (code block will show up soon when its cache refreshes).

Thanks Pietrino!

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Beo weaverryan 8 years ago

no prob, happy to help and to learn ;)

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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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