Provides Behat BDD support for your Symfony2 project. See Behat official site for more info.

Features

• Support latest Symfony2 release (PR3)
• Fully integrates with Symfony2 project
• Fully tested with Behat itself
• Covers basic functional testing needs
• Beautifull bundle testing possibilities

Installation

Add Everzet\BehatBundle to your src/Bundle dir

git submodule add git://github.com/everzet/EverzetBehatBundle.git src/Bundle/Everzet/BehatBundle

Install Translation component

Behat depends on Symfony Translation Component, that comes after PR3 release. So, download latest Symfony2 version from GitHub and copy src/Symfony/Component/Translation directory inside your local src/vendor/symfony/src/Symfony/Component/.

Put Behat inside vendors folder

git submodule add git://github.com/everzet/Behat src/vendor/Behat

Add Behat namespace to autoload

// src/autoload.php
$loader->registerNamespaces(array(
    // ...
    'Everzet\\Behat' => $vendorDir . '/Behat/src',
    // ...
));

Add EverzetBehatBundle to your application kernel

// app/AppKernel.php
public function registerBundles()
{
    return array(
        // ...
        new Bundle\Everzet\BehatBundle\EverzetBehatBundle(),
        // ...
    );
}

Add behat configuration into your config

# app/config/config.yml
behat.config: ~

Configuration parameters

EverzetBehatBundle have configuration alias:

• behat.config is core configurator of BehatBundle. Specify default formatter parameters and output options here.

For example, by default Behat uses pretty formatter. If you want to always use progress formatter instead of specifying -f ... option everytime, add this to your config:

# app/config/config.yml
behat.config:
  formatter: progress

Other options is locale and colors

Write features

Put your features inside your Bundle/Tests/Features/ directory, steps inside Bundle/Tests/Features/steps, hooks and env.php inside Bundle/Tests/Features/support.

Core steps

EverzetBehatBundle comes bundled with core steps. Look at them inside Bundle's BehatBundle/Resources/features folder. Also, you can view how to use them by looking at BehatBundle/Tests/Features/* core BehatBundle tests.

Command line

EverzetBehatBundle provides some very useful CLI commands for running your features.

Run bundle tests

This command runs all features inside single bundle:

php app/console behat:test:bundle Application\\HelloBundle

to run HelloBundle application tests.

Run single feature

This command runs single specified feature:

php app/console behat:test:feature src/Application/HelloBundle/Tests/Features/SingleFeature.feature

Options

EverzetBehatBundle supports all options, that Behat itself supports, including:

• --formatter or -f: switch formatter (default ones is progress & pretty)
• --no-colors: turn-off colors in formatter
• --i18n ...: output formatter locale
• --tags ...: filter features/scenarios by tag

CREDITS

List of developers who contributed:

• Konstantin Kudryashov (ever.zet@gmail.com)