Browser Testing

browser_testing.md

Browser Testing: Outline

Prerequisite

• Have PHP (preferably a supported version which is 8+) installed on your machine (or in a container if you prefer). To check which version is installed, open a terminal or command line and enter
  • php -v
• For installation instructions, visit
  • https://www.php.net/manual/en/install.php.
• Have PHP Dependency Manager Composer installed:
  • https://getcomposer.org/download/
• Have Docker installed (optional but recommended):
  • https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/
• Have node and npm
  • https://nodejs.org/en/download
• Make sure that /usr/local/bin is in your $PATH
  • npm install
• Install selenium standalone
  • npm install selenium-standalone -g
  • selenium-standalone install

Project Setup

• Install Symfony Demo Project
  • https://github.com/symfony/demo
  • composer create-project symfony/symfony-demo my_project
• Install codeception
• cd my_project
• composer require "codeception/codeception" --dev

Steps

• Acceptance with PhpBrowser
  • Read Blog Articles
• Take a look at Gherkins
• Move to Functional
  • Requires a framework module but doesn't need a server
• More Gherkins
  • Manage Articles
  • Background
  • TableNode
  • Scenerio Outline Examples
  • haveinDatabase
• Cleanup
  • Access database
  • Use another database in codeception.yml
• Acceptance with Selenium
  • Stand Alone
  • Recorder
• More Browser Functions
  • tags
  • waitForElement
  • performOn
    • ActionSequence::build()

TIPS

MAKE SURE of suite case Acceptance or acceptance If the actor classes are not created or updated as you expect, try to generate them manually with the build command: php vendor/bin/codecept build