Testing with Behat

To download Behat installation package manually

• Download behat.phar from the Behat Downloads page and save it on your computer:

  • If you need full coding assistance in addition to the ability of running Behat tests, store behat.phar under the root of the project where Behat will be later used.

  • If you only need to run Behat tests and you do not need any coding assistance, you can save behat.phar outside the project.

To download and install Behat with Composer

1. On the context menu of composer.json, choose Composer | Manage Dependencies. Alternatively choose Tools | Composer | Manage Dependencies from the main menu.

2. In the Manage Composer Dependencies Dialog that opens, select the behat/behat package from the Available Packages list, possibly using the search field. The list shows all the available packages; the packages that are already installed are marked with a checkmark.

   Choose the relevant version from the Version to install list.

3. If necessary, expand the Settings hidden area and specify the advanced installation options. In the Command line parameters field, type the additional command line parameters.

4. Click Install.

1. In the Settings/Preferences dialog (Ctrl+Alt+S), expand the Languages and Frameworks node and select Test Frameworks under PHP.

   On the Test Frameworks page that opens, click in the central pane and choose the configuration type from the list:

   

   • In local configurations the default project PHP interpreter is used, see Default project CLI interpreters for details.

   • To use Behat with a remote PHP interpreter, choose one of the configurations in the dialog that opens:

     

2. In the Behat Library area, specify the location of the Behat executable file or behat.phar archive.

   Click next to the Path to Behat directory or phar file field. IntelliJ IDEA detects the version of Behat and displays it below the field.
3. In the Test Runner area, appoint the configuration .yml file to use for launching and executing scenarios.
   By default, Behat looks for a behat.yml configuration file in the project root folder or in the config folder. You can appoint a custom configuration file.

   • Clear the Default configuration file checkbox to have Behat use the behat.yml configuration file from the project root folder or from the config folder. If no such file is found, test execution fails, therefore it may be more reliable to specify the configuration file explicitly.

   • Select the Default configuration file checkbox to specify your own .yml configuration file. This file will be later used as default in all Behat run/debug configurations.

     In the field, specify the location of the configuration file to use. Type the path manually or click and choose the file in the dialog box that opens.

To run or debug Behat tests

• In the Project tool window, select the feature file to run your tests from and choose Run '<feature file>' or Debug '<feature file>' on the context menu of the selection:

  

  IntelliJ IDEA generates a default run configuration and starts a run/debug test session with it.

To save an automatically generated default configuration

• After a test session is over, choose Save <default_test_configuration_name> on the context menu of the file or folder.

To create a custom run/debug configuration

1. In the Project tool window, select the file or folder with the tests to run and choose Create run configuration on the context menu. Alternatively, choose Run | Edit Configurations on the main menu, then click and choose Behat from the list.

2. In the Run/Debug Configuration: Behat dialog that opens, specify the scenarios to run and customize the behavior of the current PHP interpreter by specifying the options and arguments to be passed to the PHP executable file.