Load Testing With Behat

The team I am a part of write our tests using Behat for the most part as we try to practice BDD and take advantage of how writing in Gherkin can lead our code to be more inline with the language of the business. In this case I wanted to replicate some file upload and processing that the system will be doing during a training that will happen next week as 4 users are uploading files and going through the entire process.

February 1, 2017 Read
Chrome update equals Behat Fail

Had trouble running behat after I ran updates on Chrome My typical install https://www.npmjs.com/package/selenium-standalone did not fix it, even try brew but no luck. All I needed to do was go here and grab the lastest one for my Mac. For me this was the 32 bit. Then after running selenium-standalone install to see where the old one was installed I used that path to unzip this file and move it there /usr/local/lib/node_modules/selenium-standalone/.

November 7, 2016 Read
Mockery Behat and Laravel

This is a quick view of using this library https://github.com/laracasts/Behat-Laravel-Extension and a Mockery Trait (should be included soon but for now put the below in your features/bootstrap folder and run composer dump). The example here is a method that looks like this features/bootstrap/ExampleContext.php $partial = Mockery::mock(\App\Broadcasts\ColumnsAndRowsDoneProcessingEmail::class, [$this->segment])->makePartial(); $partial->shouldReceive('sendEmail')->never(); $repo = App::make(\App\JobsRepository::class); $partial->handle($repo); When this is done running I would get pass BUT if I change it never to once and run it again I still get green :(

August 31, 2016 Read
Uploading Images in Behat both at Domain Level and UI Level

The goal here is as follows @fileCleanup @javascript Scenario: Uploading File Given I already made a Segmentation and am editing it Then I add file and the system will process it And I can not add another file till it is done And when the system is done I can add another file In this case they are large files and I want to get an MVP for the users to interact with so one file at a time is enough for now.

August 11, 2016 Read
Behat Laravel Domain Testing Inside Out

I will cover the use of FormRequest, Mockery, Behat and more in this article. The article will show how to test your Domain code, in this case I mean testing how the code will work outside of the Routing and Controller layer of your Application. But what this will lead to is a “lego” like moment of plugging in these parts to your Controller so you know it will work. Of course it will be tested as well during the UI testing.

August 10, 2016 Read
Example of Mixing it up Behat BDD and PHPUnit

Just wanted to show two things here. One is how sometimes I end up in PHPUnit to work out some ideas. And two how awesome it is to refactor thanks to PHPUnit. In this example I had a Class responsible for saving data, we’ll call FooSaveData. But before that save it has to process some incoming information against another set of data to save the results of that. So I made another class we’ll call FooProcessData.

June 23, 2016 Read
Getting Going Quickly Windows, Behat and Selenium

Quick Install Steps Vagrant and Homestead This was easy I just followed these steps here and I was done. For me I used Vmware but Virtualbox is fine. Windows in Selenium Two easy steps Step 1 Install Node.js SUPER EASY https://nodejs.org/en/download/ Install the .exe, restart your console and you have node! Step 2 Install Selenium Just go here and you are done! https://www.npmjs.com/package/selenium-standalone After those steps I run it in a powershell and the server is running and I am set to use it.

May 3, 2016 Read
Behat and Uploading Files to a Form Even on Remote Selenium2 Servers

Just had to tackle this issue so making some notes for later here :) Updated and more detailed here I run selenium on my Windows PC and before that my Mac, either one would have had this issue since my test is running side my VM. This meant when I needed to run a test to interact with a form to upload an image that image path was relative to the machine (VM) that I started the test on and not the Browser that was being manipulated by Selenium2.

April 27, 2016 Read
Remote Behat Testing with Laravel

Listen Here This document will cover how to use a Behat specific API to setup a site for testing. What this includes is setting up a Scenario so that it has the data you need to run a test. This makes it possible not to rely on Seed data for this. This will allow us to run behat tests from remote machines as well as run tests in parallel. Why not seed data?

February 3, 2016 Read
Install Webdriver to get testing with Behat and Javascript

This is so I do not forget! UPDATED: go here instead https://www.npmjs.com/package/selenium-standalone 1) sudo npm -g install webdriver-manager 2) sudo webdriver-manager update –chrome 3) Get Java for the Mac Googled El Capitan Java and takes me to Apples site to get the right version of java https://support.apple.com/kb/dl1572?locale=en_US 4) webdriver-manager start That is it!

January 26, 2016 Read
Behat for Product Owners

As a developer putting all the business requirements into action and then showing that it is working as expected can be hard. 10 different google docs, 3 different views of what are the goals etc. And as a Product Owner you are not sure if the work is done without always clicking around. And more importantly you do not even know if the developer really gets what you want. This is where Behat / Gherkin (cause that name really gets Product Owners feeling comfortable) can help out.

July 31, 2015 Read
Quick way to mock data for Behat in Laravel

Below allows me to use this type of step in my tests Scenario: Given I update a Domain get 200 Given I mock "App\Sites\Domain" with properties: """ id: "mock-update-1" site_id: "mock-site-1" domain: "foo2.com """ Given I have the payload: """ { "data": { "id": "mock-update-1", "site_id": "mock-site-1", "domain": "foo2.com" } } """ Then I request "PUT /api/v1/sites/mock-site-1/domains/mock-update-1" Then I get a "200" response Here is the code in my FeatureContext.php

March 30, 2015 Read