Automated Testing with Behat & Mink on Linux

Have time to read my introduction.

Behat + Mink + Selenium Server will do the automatic testing for your website. Behat handles your test cases in a form of a sentence which consist of the following

• Feature - which is a description of your test case. Example is "Title Checking"
• Scenario - Feature consist of Scenario's
• Conditions - Scenario's consist of condition using the following tags "Given", "When", "Then", "And", "But"

Example feature: 

Feature: Google Search



  @javascript

  Scenario: Check Google Site

    When I go to "http://www.google.com"

    Then Capture a ScreenShot



  @javascript

  Scenario: Search Efren on Google

    Given I am on "http://www.google.com"

    When I input "Efren" in "gbqfq" element

    When press "Google Search"

    Then print current URL

    Then Capture a ScreenShot

You need the following

• Linux with the following server
• php
• php-gd
• php-mysql
• php-mbstring
• php-xml
• php-devel
• php-pear
• apache or httpd
• mysql-server
• mysql-client
• firefox
• gnome or kde
• java

• Do the following
• cd ~/
• mkdir behat
• cd behat
• curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
• download the ff and put it in your behat folder
• https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9Xc5UE7j8u9NW5jMmktZ01SeDA/view?usp=sharing
• https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9Xc5UE7j8u9QmlpZmF4MFN1b2M/view?usp=sharing
• https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9Xc5UE7j8u9VUduX3RWc0JJWm8/view?usp=sharing
• https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9Xc5UE7j8u9WnZ2d1NxMlNnZ3c/view?usp=sharing

• ./composer.phar install

• Selenium server
• Download selenium server in http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/
• java -jar selenium-server-standalone-xxxx.jar

• sample feature
• https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9Xc5UE7j8u9eVhxLXllZndGZTg/view?usp=sharing

• just run the
• bin/behat
• your should see test1.jpg