context-alice.md

Alice Context

This context use the nelmio/alice fixture loading system.

Warning : Alice context is using nelmio/alice ~2.0 since v0.6. If you have to use Alice ~1.0, use v.0.5.

Configuration

Edit behat.yml

default:
    # ...
    suites:
        default:
            # ...
            contexts:
                - # ...
                - Knp\FriendlyContexts\Context\AliceContext
    extensions:
        # ...
        Knp\FriendlyContexts\Extension:
            alice:
                fixtures:
                    User: path/to/my/user/fixtures.yml
                    Product: path/to/my/product/fixtures.yml
                dependencies: ~

Usage

Load a file

@alice(User) @alice(Product)
Feature: My feature
    The feature description
    ...

Load all files

@alice(*)
Feature: My feature
    The feature description
    ...

Manage dependencies between alice files

If, for example, you have to load a "User" alice file before a "Product" alice file, you can do it directly from the feature :

@alice(User) @alice(Product)
Feature: My feature
...

Or you can manage de dependence via your behat.yml

default:
    # ...
    suites:
        default:
            # ...
            contexts:
                - # ...
    extensions:
        # ...
        Knp\FriendlyContexts\Extension:
            alice:
                fixtures:
                    User: path/to/my/user/fixtures.yml
                    Product: path/to/my/product/fixtures.yml
                dependencies: 
                        Product: [ User ]
                        # ...

Entity Context

All imported fixtures can be re-used in the Entity Context as object reference.

# user.yml
App\Entity\User:
    user-john:
        firstname: John
        lastname: Doe
    user-admin:
        firstname: Admin
        lastname: Admin

@alice(User)
Feature: My feature
    The feature description
    
    Background:
        Given the following products
            | name  | user  |
            | Ball  | John  |
            | Shoes | Admin |
            
    ...

Add Alice provider

You can add a provider via a class name or a Symfony service

default:
    # ...
    suites:
        default:
            # ...
            contexts:
                - # ...
    extensions:
        # ...
        Knp\FriendlyContexts\Extension:
            alice:
                fixtures: #...
                dependencies: # ...
                providers:
                    - App\Alice\MyProvider # from class
                    - @app.alice.my_provider # from service

Information

Files will be loaded following the order of files declaration in your behat.yml file. Tags order has no impact.