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01

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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Easwaran_Chinraj 2 years ago

Dear SymfonyCasts,
I've run into a problem where Selenium2 is interacting with the production database instead of the test database. As a result, when adding a new product, it's being inserted into the bdd.product table rather than bdd_test.product. How can I configure Selenium2 to utilize the test database instead?
I'm using Symfony 7, if that information is necessary.
Thank you in advance for your assistance. I prefer maintaining a clean comments section and want to avoid cluttering it with unnecessary thank-you messages.
Best regards,
Easwaran Chinraj

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MolloKhan SFCASTS Easwaran_Chinraj 2 years ago edited

Hey @Easwaran_Chinraj

Are you using Behat behind the scenes? You need to boot the Symfony's kernel on the "test" environment. Or, perhaps the problem is on the HTTP calls it makes to your application. If that's the case, you can set up the APP_ENV environment variable at the time you start the web server, just like this APP_ENV=test symfony serve -d

Cheers!

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Easwaran_Chinraj MolloKhan 2 years ago

Dear MolloKhan,
I followed your suggestion and tried running symfony serve -d --env test in my Windows environment. However, I encountered the following error message: Incorrect usage: flag provided but not defined: -env.
In light of your advice, I proceeded by copying the contents of the .env file to .env.local and adjusted the APP_ENV variable to test, which indeed resolved the issue.
Interestingly, when I executed the migration command symfony console doctrine:migrations:migrate --env=test with the --env flag, it worked flawlessly. However, I'm puzzled as to why symfony serve -d --env test fails with an error message.
Could you please advise on the equivalent command for setting the environment to test while starting the server on Windows? Your assistance is greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Best regards,
Easwaran Chinraj

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MolloKhan SFCASTS Easwaran_Chinraj 2 years ago

I don't know how to do it in Windows but I asked ChatGPT and said you can do this

$env:APP_ENV = "test"
symfony console serve -d

I hope it helps!

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Easwaran_Chinraj MolloKhan 2 years ago edited

Dear MolloKhan,
Thank you very much for your time, patience, and assistance. Running set "APP_ENV=test" and then starting the server made the Selenium2 to use the test database.
And thanks for this great tutorial series!
Cheers!

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MolloKhan SFCASTS Easwaran_Chinraj 2 years ago

Awesome! You're welcome :)

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GDIBass 7 years ago edited

Mine sometimes tries to fill out the name field WHILE the modal is loading, which then fails (because it's not visible yet). I was able to get it to pass every time by adding a second wait:



$this->getSession()->wait(100);

But I was wondering if there was a better way of handling this.

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Victor SFCASTS GDIBass 7 years ago

Hey Matt,

Looks like you wait 0.1 second, but not a big deal. Hm, this line should help: $('.modal:visible').length > 0 - probably you need to debug the HTML in a tool like Google Chrome toolbar, maybe you just need to use a different from ".modal" class, probably some parent tag is "display:none" as well.

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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