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Mink Extension
==============
You can use Behat to describe anything, that you can describe in business
logic. Its tools, gui applications, web applications. Most interesting part
is web applications. First, behavioral testing already exists in web world -
its called functional or acceptance testing. Almost all popular frameworks
and languages provide functional testing tools. Today well talk about how to
use Behat for functional testing of web applications. `Mink <http://mink.behat.org>`_
is a tool exactly for that and this extension provides integration for it.
Basically, MinkExtension is an integration layer between Behat 3.0+ and Mink 1.4+
and it provides:
* Additional services for Behat (``Mink``, ``Sessions``, ``Drivers``).
* ``Behat\MinkExtension\Context\MinkAwareContext`` which provides ``Mink``
instance for your contexts.
* Base ``Behat\MinkExtension\Context\MinkContext`` context which provides base
step definitions and hooks for your contexts or subcontexts. Or it could be
even used as context on its own.
Installation
------------
This extension requires:
* Behat 3.0+
* Mink 1.4+
Through Composer
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The easiest way to keep your suite updated is to use `Composer <http://getcomposer.org>`_:
1. Define dependencies in your ``composer.json``:
.. code-block:: js
{
"require-dev": {
...
"behat/mink-extension": "~2.0@dev"
}
}
2. Install/update your vendors:
.. code-block:: bash
$ composer update behat/mink-extension
3. Activate extension by specifying its class in your ``behat.yml``:
.. code-block:: yaml
# behat.yml
default:
# ...
extensions:
Behat\MinkExtension\Extension:
base_url: 'http://example.com'
goutte: ~
Usage
-----
After installing extension, there would be 6 usage options available for you:
1. Extending ``Behat\MinkExtension\Context\RawMinkContext`` in your feature suite.
This will give you ability to use preconfigured `Mink` instance altogether with some
convenience methods:
* ``getSession($name = null)``
* ``assertSession($name = null)``
``RawMinkContext`` doesn't provide any hooks or definitions, so you can inherit from it
in as many contexts as you want - you'll never get ``RedundantStepException``.
2. Extending ``Behat\MinkExtension\Context\MinkContext`` with one of your contexts.
Exactly like previous option, but also provides lot of predefined step definitions out
of the box. As this context provides step definitions and hooks, you can use it **only once**
inside your feature context tree.
.. code-block:: php
<?php
use Behat\MinkExtension\Context\MinkContext;
class FeatureContext extends MinkContext
{
/**
* @Then /^I wait for the suggestion box to appear$/
*/
public function iWaitForTheSuggestionBoxToAppear()
{
$this->getSession()->wait(5000, "$('.suggestions-results').children().length > 0");
}
}
.. warning::
Keep in mind, that you can not have multiple step definitions with same regex.
It will cause ``RedundantException``. So, you can inherit from ``MinkContext``
only with one of your context/subcontext classes.
3. Adding ``Behat\MinkExtension\Context\MinkContext`` as context in your suite.
Exactly like previous option, but gives you ability to keep your main context
class clean.
.. code-block:: yaml
default:
suites:
my_suite:
contexts:
- FeatureContext
- Behat\MinkExtension\Context\MinkContext
.. note::
Keep in mind, that you can not have multiple step definitions with same regex.
It will cause ``RedundantException``. So, you can inherit from ``MinkContext``
only with one of your context/subcontext classes.
4. If you're on the php 5.4+, you can simply use ``Behat\MinkExtension\Context\MinkDictionary``
trait inside your ``FeatureContext``. This trait will provide all the needed methods,
hooks and definitions for you to start. You can use this trait **only once** inside
your feature context tree, and it cannot be used at the same time than the ``MinkContext``.
.. code-block:: php
<?php
use Behat\Behat\Context\BehatContext;
use Behat\MinkExtension\Context\MinkDictionary;
class FeatureContext extends BehatContext
{
use MinkDictionary;
/**
* @Then /^I wait for the suggestion box to appear$/
*/
public function iWaitForTheSuggestionBoxToAppear()
{
$this->getSession()->wait(5000, "$('.suggestions-results').children().length > 0");
}
}
5. Implementing ``Behat\MinkExtension\Context\MinkAwareContext`` with your context.
There's common things these methods. In each of those, target context will implement
``setMink(Mink $mink)`` and ``setMinkParameters(array $parameters)`` methods. Those methods would
be automatically called **immediately after** each context creation before each scenario. And
this ``$mink`` instance will be preconfigured based on the settings you've provided in your
``behat.yml``.
Configuration
-------------
MinkExtension comes with flexible configuration system, that gives you
ability to configure Mink inside Behat to fulfil all your needs.
Drivers
~~~~~~~
First of all, there's drivers enabling configuration. MinkExtension comes
with support for 6 drivers out of the box:
* ``GoutteDriver`` - default headless driver. It is used by default, which means
that if you didn't changed ``default_session`` (another parameter) - you should
always enable it. In order to enable it, modify your ``behat.yml`` profile:
.. code-block:: yaml
default:
extensions:
Behat\MinkExtension\Extension:
goutte: ~
.. Tips : HTTPS and self-signed certificate
In case you use Behat/Mink/Goutte to test your application, and want to test an
application secured with HTTPS, but with a self-signed certificate, you can use
the following parameters to avoid the validation error triggered by Guzzle :
.. code-block:: yaml
default:
extensions:
Behat\MinkExtension\Extension:
goutte:
guzzle_parameters:
ssl.certificate_authority: false
* ``Selenium2Driver`` - default javascript driver. It is used by default for
``@javascript`` tagged scenarios, which means that if you didn't changed
``javascript_session`` (another parameter) - you should always enable it (only
if you use ``@javascript`` scenarios, of course). In order to enable it,
modify your ``behat.yml`` profile:
.. code-block:: yaml
default:
extensions:
Behat\MinkExtension\Extension:
selenium2: ~
* ``SaucelabsDriver`` - special flavor of the Selenium2Driver configured to use the
selenium2 hosted installation of saucelabs.com. You could use it by setting it in
``javascript_session`` to ``saucelabs`` and by marking scenarios as ``@javascript``
or simply by marking scenarios with ``mink:saucelabs`` (no need to switch
``javascript_session`` in this case). In order to enable it, modify your ``behat.yml``
profile:
.. code-block:: yaml
default:
extensions:
Behat\MinkExtension\Extension:
saucelabs: ~
* ``SeleniumDriver`` - another javascript driver. You could use it by setting it
in ``javascript_session`` to ``selenium`` and by marking scenarios as ``@javascript``
or simply by marking scenarios with ``mink:selenium`` (no need to switch
``javascript_session`` in this case). In order to enable it, modify your ``behat.yml``
profile:
.. code-block:: yaml
default:
extensions:
Behat\MinkExtension\Extension:
selenium: ~
* ``SahiDriver`` - another javascript driver. You could use it by setting it
in ``javascript_session`` to ``sahi`` and by marking scenarios as ``@javascript``
or simply by marking scenarios with ``mink:sahi`` (no need to switch
``javascript_session`` in this case). In order to enable it, modify your ``behat.yml``
profile:
.. code-block:: yaml
default:
extensions:
Behat\MinkExtension\Extension:
sahi: ~
* ``ZombieDriver`` - zombie.js javascript headless driver. You could use it by setting it
in ``javascript_session`` to ``zombie`` and by marking scenarios as ``@javascript``
or simply by marking scenarios with ``mink:zombie`` (no need to switch
``javascript_session`` in this case). In order to enable it, modify your ``behat.yml``
profile:
.. code-block:: yaml
default:
extensions:
Behat\MinkExtension\Extension:
zombie: ~
.. note::
phar version of Mink comes bundles with all 5 drivers and you don't need to do
anything except enabling them in order to use them.
But if you're using Composer, you need to install drivers that you need first:
- GoutteDriver - ``behat/mink-goutte-driver``
- SeleniumDriver - ``behat/mink-selenium-driver``
- Selenium2Driver (also used for Saucelabs) - ``behat/mink-selenium2-driver``
- SahiDriver - ``behat/mink-sahi-driver``
- ZombieDriver - ``behat/mink-zombie-driver``
.. note::
All drivers share same API, which means that you could use multiple drivers
for the same suite - which one fits your needs for concrete scenarios. Don't
try to stick to single driver as there's simply no universal solution - every
driver has its pros and cons.
Additional Parameters
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There's other useful parameters, that you can use to configure your suite:
* ``base_url`` - if you're using relative paths in your ``*.feature`` files
(and you should), then this option will define which url use as a basename
for them.
* ``files_path`` - there's special step definition for file upload inputs
usage. You can use relative paths in those steps. ``files_path`` defines
base path in which Mink should search those relative files.
* ``show_cmd`` - there's special definition in MinkExtension, that saves
currently opened page into temporary file and opens it with some browser
utility (for debugging). This option defines command to be used for opening.
For example: ``show_cmd: 'firefox %s'``.
* ``show_tmp_dir`` - the temporary folder used to show the opened page (defaults
to the system temp dir)
* ``show_auto`` - Whether the opened page should be shown automatically when
a step fails.
* ``browser_name`` - meta-option, that defines which browser to use for Sahi,
Selenium and Selenium2 drivers.
* ``default_session`` - defines default session (driver) to be used for all
untagged scenarios. Could be any enabled driver name. Defaults to ``goutte``
* ``javascript_session`` - defines javascript session (driver) (the one, which
will be used for ``@javascript`` tagged scenarios). Could be any enabled driver
name. Defaults to ``selenium2``
* ``mink_loader`` - path to a file loaded to make Mink available (useful when
using the PHAR archive for Mink, useless when using Composer)