BDD with Behat

Webinar in cooperation of Qafoo & Zend

Tobias Schlitt (@tobySen)

May 8th 2013

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How to do a project
Some time later

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Unit Tests

Selenium

No, no, no !
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Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

Make specication executable Combines:

Test Driven Development Business focus

Uses common language for

Business people Analysts Developers Testers

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Double Feedback Test Cycle

Failing Acceptance Test Failing Unit-Test

Developer

Refactor Project Owner Make Test Pass Make Test Pass

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Unit Testing

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Unit tests?

Loosing importance Still valid for

Libraries Complex business logic High impact code

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Instability vs. Coverage

Stability
Unit Tests

Integration Tests Functional Tests Acceptance Tests

Coverage
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Outline

Behat Mink Tool Stack Overview

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Behat

BDD test framework for PHP Inspired by Rubys Cucumber Work with Gherkin language framework

http://behat.org

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Gherkin

Domain Specic Language (DSL) framework Goal: Business readable Create custom DSL on Gherkin Tie test code to DSL sentences

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Gherkin in Action

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Feature : DateTime proceeds t o end o f month . Scenario : Given When Then End o f February i s reached i t i s date 2013 02 01 I proceed t o t h e end o f t h e month t h e date i s 2013 02 28

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Gherkin keywords

Given
Precondition Test setup

When
Behavior trigger Test stimulus

Then
Expected behavior Describe observable result

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Binding Code to Sentences

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Feature : DateTime proceeds t o end o f month . Scenario : Given When Then End o f February i s reached i t i s date 2013 02 01 I proceed t o t h e end o f t h e month t h e date i s 2013 02 28

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class ExampleContext extends BehatContext

{ }

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Binding Code to Sentences

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Feature : DateTime proceeds t o end o f month . Scenario : Given When Then End o f February i s reached i t i s date 2013 02 01 I proceed t o t h e end o f t h e month t h e date i s 2013 02 28

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class ExampleContext extends BehatContext

{
protected $date ; /

@Given / i t i s date ( [ ] ) $ / / public function t he re Is Th eD a te ( $date ) { $ t h i s > date = new \ DateTime ( $date ) ; } }
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Binding Code to Sentences

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Feature : DateTime proceeds t o end o f month . Scenario : Given When Then End o f February i s reached i t i s date 2013 02 01 I proceed t o t h e end o f t h e month t h e date i s 2013 02 28

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class ExampleContext extends BehatContext

{
/ @When / I proceed t o t h e end o f t h e month$ / / public function iProceedToTheEndOfTheMonth ( )

{
$ t h i s > date > modify ( l a s t day o f t h i s month ) ;

} }

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Binding Code to Sentences

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Feature : DateTime proceeds t o end o f month . Scenario : Given When Then End o f February i s reached i t i s date 2013 02 01 I proceed t o t h e end o f t h e month t h e date i s 2013 02 28

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class ExampleContext extends BehatContext

{
/

@Then / t h e date i s ( ? P< date > [ ] ) $ / / public function theDateIsNow ( $date ) { \ PHPUnit Framework Assert : : a s s e r t E q u a l s ( $date , $ t h i s > date > f o r m a t ( Ymd ) ); }
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Behavior Driven Development

Domain Driven Design

DDD

Domain Model Ubiquitous Language DSL

Domain Specic Language

Specication BDD
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Outline

Behat Mink Tool Stack Overview

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Mink

Web acceptance test framework Abstracts browser emulations / controllers

Goutte Zombie.js Selenium / Selenium 2 Sahi

Mink extension for Behat provides sentences

http://mink.behat.org

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Behat Mink Example

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Feature : Browse W i k i p e d i a Scenario : Given When And Then Scenario : Given When And And Then Search f r o n t page I am on / I f i l l i n s e a r c h I n p u t w i t h Kore I press se a rc hB u tt o n I should see Kore may r e f e r t o : Follow r e d i r e c t l i n k I am on / I f i l l i n s e a r c h I n p u t w i t h Kore I press se a rc hB u tt o n I f o l l o w Kore ( energy d r i n k ) t h e response s t a t u s code should be 200

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Mink Behat-extension

Mink integration for Behat Pre-build sentences to browse pages Extensible with custom sentences

http://extensions.behat.org/mink

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Attention!

This is no more BDD!

Too technical Not bound to the model Fragile for view changes

However
Useful for system tests Awesome for refactoring!

http://bit.ly/behat_cc

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BDD through the Front-End

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@Given / I am logged i n as ( [ ] ) $ / /
public function iAmLoggedInAs ( $user )

{
$ t h i s > currentUsername = $user ; return array ( new Step \ Given ( I am on / ) , new Step \When( I f i l l i n username w i t h . $user . ) , new Step \When( I f i l l i n password w i t h t e s t ) , new Step \When( I press Login ) , );

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Outline

Behat Mink Tool Stack Overview

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Behat tool stack

Access Frontend

Behat
Mink-Extension

Mink
Goutte Sahi

Application

Custom Extension Access Parse / Execute Feature-Tests

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Conclusion

BDD tries to make specication executable

DDD context No low hanging fruit Easy to fail

Behat is a tool for BDD in PHP Behat + Mink = Awesome for refactoring

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Thanks for Listening Stay in touch

Code Coverage with Behat: Tobias Schlitt toby@qafoo.com @tobySen

http://bit.ly/behat_cc
Another Behat intro:

http://bit.ly/behat_intro
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http://talks.qafoo.com
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