Behat Interactive Shell

[grahamc]

Oftentimes while developing functional tests, I run into very minor errors. The ability to run the commands first in an interactive shell (using readline even?) where it is possible to go back and re-try tests would be wonderful. Being able to then save that out to a file would be even better.

I looked into the Gherkin source: https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/blob/master/src/Behat/Gherkin/Loader/LoaderInterface.php

If this used Iterator it would be much easier, since the next could have a readline call in it. Otherwise, it looks like it would be pretty tricky.

So... yeah.

[dr-fozzy]

I belive need to correct a mistakes, and not the symptoms... The syntax of Behat test is pretty easy. Otherwise, try http://www.phpsh.org/

[grahamc]

Sure, the syntax is pretty easy, but minor things like a CSS selector being slightly wrong becomes tedious. All I'm saying is I think it would be a valuable feature to provide.

[dr-fozzy]

In that context - I agree, such feature would be nice.

[alganet]

This could be very useful for testing javascript-heavy apps running on Selenium. For now, my team have been using rspec with pry just for this specific feature. We're developing those single-page apps that change the page DOM a lot.

Selenium has its quirks. Sometimes it loses references to dynamically updated nodes and we need to come up with xpath/css selectors that avoid these problems. Having a console set up ready to test these assertions is very handy.

[dbollaer]

I have created part of the solution. Right now I still need to use methods, instead of gherkin language.
Some idea's on how to fix this would be nice.

Here is the first part of the code

https://gist.github.com/dbollaer/4985370

and here is an example on how to use it.

Given I am on the home page
When I execute
Then I should see "my result"

When the program enters execute, I type my commands(interactively)

Like:
followLink;my page
pressButton;submit

On the end; I type "."
And then it executes "Then I should see "my result"
This way I don't have to restart selenium, when I am writing my script.

[lindsaymacvean]

How do I implement this into my feature context file, do I use a 'use' statement or should I change this into a class?

[lindsaymacvean]

I put this trait in another file called InteractiveShell.php
Then called it from my main FeatureContext.php file like so:

include 'InteractiveShell.php';   
class WebContext extends MinkExtension  
{  
  use DevelopmentDictionary;  
}  

[lindsaymacvean]

I am now confused how to use commands like the below from the interactive execute() shell:

$page = $this->getSession()->getPage();  
$this->visit('/admin/structure/taxonomy/organisational_unit/add');  
.

Essentially I want to pass the context of the parent class to the execute() method so that I can run mink extension commands.

[everzet]

I'm closing this issue as it is seems to be very old. Please reopen with updated stats if that's not the case!