1. Behat - Arguably the best tool to switch to Automated testing from Manual
Shweta Sharma

2. Behat: What and Why BDD PHP framework Cucumber
Validates business use cases
Verification versus Validation
Gherkin
Automated test cases
Several extensions

3. Prerequisites
Apache
Mysql
PHP
Composer - System wide installation

4. Local Installation Create a directory
List dependencies in composer.json
composer install
Configure behat.yml
Initialize behat
Verify your installation
See list of predefined step definitions

5. composer.json

6. Structure of behat composer.json behat.yml Features directory
Feature files
Bootstrap
FeatureContext file

7. behat.yml

8. Feature file Feature Background Scenario / Scenario Outline Given When
Then
And
But

9. Mink extension What is it? Integration with Behat Ready to use
Hides API differences between different browser emulators
Controlling the Browser
Traversing pages
Traversal methods
Mink selectors
Manipulate the pages
Interact with the pages
Integration with Behat

10. Example Using Mink

11. Mink drivers
Mink Drivers -
Goutte
browserkit
Selenium2
Zombie
Sahi
Selenium
Execution
Browser based
Headless

12. Profiles Profiles Configure in behat.yml Multiple environments
Multiple browsers
Overrides settings of default profile

13. Example - Profiles

14. Tagged scenarios Run selective scenarios / Tags Exclude scenarios
Configure in behat.yml
Example:
Tagged scenarios
Run via command line
Example: smoke, feature-specific, language-specific

15. Example - Tagged scenarios
Group by execution:
bin\behat features
Single scenario:
bin\behat features\demo.feature:13 (line number of of the scenario)
Exclude scenarios:
bin\behat features --tags

16. Example

17. Custom step definitions
Custom step definitions / functions
FeatureContext.php

18. Extensions Drupal extension Symfony extension Screenshot extension
Page Object extension
Laravel extension
Multiple API extensions
Wordpress extension
Reporting extensions

19. Demonstration Headless browser Using Chrome Tagged scenario
Using a profile

20. Thank You Twitter - https://twitter.com/shwetasharma84
LinkedIn -
Github -
Drupal.org -
Skype - shweta_ns
Full day training at DrupalCon Nashville
Blogs -

21. Q & A Summary: Behat - http://docs.behat.org/en/v2.5/quick_intro.html
Gherkin
Mink extension
Mink drivers
Tagged scenarios
Profile
Custom step definitions
Behat -
Mink -