Behat3MinkSelenium2Basic

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Behat 3, Mink, Selenium2, Browser Control on actual Chrome Browser on a single local machine. This is basic example, working as of 7/1/2018. (Note that as time goes on the versions of components that work together changes, this is an issue I had with almost all examples I tried, as such, this project has all the files pulled by composer for now. All that is needed though, in theory, are the following [features dirctory, behat.yml, composer.json, and composer.phar if you don't have it])

This project was about going from zero knowledge about Behat and Mink combined with Selenium on a Linux system, to a basic, functioning test automation setup that launches a browser and runs some basic tests within that browser.

Steps Achieved:

1. Determine a combination of Behat, Mink and Selenium2 that would run together.
2. Do basic, non-browser test on 'ls' command to establish basic functionality.
3. Do headless browser test on Wikipedia search to establish basic website test.
4. Do tests on a non-tutorial site: https://www.soundtransit.org/ (note: site may change and break tests at any time)

• Tests were created that work on filling form, but could not get to query results
• As tests were only using goutte headless extension, limited access to page

5. Determine how to get Selenium2 extension working with Selenium server, to control actual browser, to be able to access full page.

• Investigate different ways to launch Selenium server
• Investigate and determine proper behat.yml

6. Build tests that can interact and verify results in lower part of page that cannot be accessed in headless test.

Setup/components/versions

1. Behat 3, Mink, Selenium2 (see composer.json for more version information. To install from this file run the following)

   php composer.phar install

2. java 1.8
3. php 7
4. selenium-server-standalone-3.13.0.jar placed in directory "X"
5. ChromeDriver 2.40 (Supports Chrome v66-68) placed in directory "X" (with the jar file above)
6. Chrome (a supported version, in this case, 67)

Run notes

• This is a single machine setup.
• run selenium server similar to below, prior to running behat tests

  java -jar (Path to dirctory "X")/selenium-server-standalone-*.jar

• Donuts "test" is an intentional failure case in order to see the system is working as expected.
• see exampleResults.txt to see how this was run and what output looked like.

Other objectives of interest not addressed yet

1. be able to run test on Firefox and IE as well.
2. add/update code to spin on elements not seen yet, such that test proceeds as soon as possible
3. running multiple browsers in parallel
4. further understand and implement organizing code into multiple context files