behat in Selenium in php

This topic covers how to write the Selenium tests in behat (BDD framework just like cucumber). Just follow below steps.

• Create composer.json file and mention all dependencies. Then install all dependencies.
• Create a features directory and store features in it.
• Create step definitions.

Installing all dependencies

Create composer.json file with below contents.

 

{
    “require-dev”: {
    “phpunit/phpunit”: “*”,
    “facebook/webdriver”: “dev-master”,
    “behat/behat”: “2.4.*@stable”
    },
    “minimum-stability”: “dev”,
    “config”: {
    “bin-dir”: “bin/”
    }
    }

Then install the dependencies using composer.

 
php composer.phar install

Creating feature file

Then Create features directory and create a feature file in it.

 
Feature: Title check of pages

Scenario: Check that the title of the home page is “Tutorial”

Given I am on the “https://www.softpost.org” webpage
Then I verify that title contains “Tutorial”

Creating step definitions

Then create a bootstrap directory inside features directory and store FeatureContext.php file in it. This file contains step definitions.

 
<?php

use BehatBehatContextBehatContext,
BehatBehatExceptionPendingException;

use BehatGherkinNodePyStringNode,
BehatGherkinNodeTableNode;

class FeatureContext extends BehatContext {

protected $driver;

/** @BeforeScenario */
public function before($event)
{
$capabilities = array(WebDriverCapabilityType::BROWSER_NAME => ‘chrome’);
$this->driver = RemoteWebDriver::create(‘https://localhost:4444/wd/hub’, $capabilities);

}

/**
* @Given /^I am on the “([^”]*)” webpage$/
*/
public function iAmOnTheWebpage($page)
{
$this->driver->get($page);
}

/**
* @Then /^I verify that title contains “([^”]*)”$/
*/
public function iVerifyThatTitleContains($title)
{

// checking that page title contains word ‘Tutorial’
PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase::assertContains($title, $this->driver->getTitle());
}

/** @AfterScenario */
public function after($event)
{
$this->driver->quit();
}

}
?>

To execute the features, you can use below syntax.

 
bin/behat