Behat 3 + Mink + Selenium

Installation

We will be installing the following:

• Behat version 3 – the testingframework
• Mink – for controlling real webbrowsers to run your tests
• PHPUnit – for using the handy ‘assert’ methods PHPUnit provides.
• Selenium Standalone Server – this will act as a service to accept connections and map them to browsers.

Install Behat, Mink and PHPUnit with composer:

$ composer require behat/mink-extension behat/mink-goutte-driver

Note: PHPUnit is not in the list. This is done so that composer can figure out the right version to download.

Download Selenium Standalone Server from the following URL: http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/

Configuration

We will tell behat to use the Mink extension, use http://localhost as the URL that needs to be tested. All stepdefinitions will be used from classes FeatureContext and MinkContext.

Create a file in the root of the tests directory named behat.yml and put in the following contents.

# file tests/behat.yml
default:
  extensions:
    Behat\MinkExtension:
      base_url: http://localhost
      goutte: ~
      selenium2: ~

  suites:
    default:
      contexts:
        - FeatureContext
        - Behat\MinkExtension\Context\MinkContext

Test

Now, run the tests:

behat