Behat Documentation¶

Introduction¶

Behaviour Driven Development¶

Why use Behat?¶

Features¶

Example¶

Support / Questions¶

License¶

Quick Start¶

Example¶

Installation¶

Method #1 - Composer (the recommended one)¶

Method #2 - PHAR (an easy one)¶

Development¶

Executing Behat¶

Defining Steps¶

Automating Steps¶

Implementing the Feature¶

What’s next?¶

User Guide¶

About Gherkin Language¶

Gherkin Syntax¶

Gherkin in Many Languages¶

Features and Scenarios¶

Features¶

Scenarios¶

Initializing a new Behat Project¶

Suite Initialisation¶

Creating Features¶

Writing Scenarios¶

Steps¶

Givens¶

Whens¶

Thens¶

And & But¶

Backgrounds¶

Scenario Outlines¶

Tables¶

Multiline Arguments¶

Pystrings¶

Feature contexts¶

Hooking into the Test Process¶

Behat Hook System¶

Hooks¶

Suite Hooks¶

Tagged hooks¶

Scenario hooks¶

Feature hooks¶

Step hooks¶

Using Scopes¶

Defining Step Definitions¶

Creating Your First Step Definition¶

Definition Snippets¶

Step Execution Result Types¶

Successful Steps¶

Undefined Steps¶

Pending Steps¶

Failed Steps¶

Skipped Steps¶

Ambiguous Steps¶

Redundant Step Definitions¶

Step Argument Transformations¶

Table Transformation¶

Arguments¶

Definition Keywords¶

Context Class Requirements¶

Context Lifetime¶

Multiple Contexts¶

Context Parameters¶

Context Traits¶

Command Line Tool¶

Identifying Tests¶

By Profile¶

By Suite¶

By Tags¶

By Path¶

By Name¶

By Role¶

By Language¶

Formatting Behat Output¶

Define Formatter¶

Specify Output¶

Format Settings¶

Development Support¶

Append Snippets¶

Dry Running¶

Stop on Failure¶

Re-run¶

Informative Output¶

Print Definitions¶

Verbose¶

Help¶

Version¶

Config Reference¶

Output Story Syntax¶

Displaying Colours¶

Strict¶

Specifying Configuration File¶

Configuration¶

Feature, Suite and Scenario Configuration¶

Suite Paths¶

Suite Filters¶

Suites¶

Extensions¶

Suite Contexts¶

Profiles¶

Importing¶

Custom Autoloading¶

Formatters¶

Extending Behat¶

Developing a Custom Extension¶

Developing a Custom Formatter¶

Cookbooks¶

Configuring Behat for Testing Selenium¶

Integrating Symfony2 with Behat¶

Developing Web Applications with Behat and Mink¶

Migrating from Behat 2.x to Behat 3.x¶

Using Spin Functions for Slow Tests¶

Using the Symfony2 Profiler with Behat and Symfony2 Extension¶

Intercepting the Redirection with Behat and Mink¶

Gathering Contexts when using Multiple Contexts¶

Multilingual Support in your Features¶

Useful Resources¶

Integrating Behat with PHPStorm¶

Behat vs Cucumber¶

Gherkin API¶

Behat API¶

Behat Cheat Sheet¶

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