Test automation with php codeception
- 1. Test automation with PHP Codeception By Buddhi Eashwarage
- 2. What is Test automation • Test automation means testing some application or software by using another software tool or software framework to compare actual outcomes with predicted outcomes. • Or simply we can say, it is a process different from manual testing
- 3. What is Codeception • Codeception is a modern full-stack testing framework for PHP. Inspired by BDD, it provides you an absolutely new way of writing acceptance, functional and even unit tests. Powered by PHPUnit.
- 4. What is the application which we are going to test • We are going to test Joomla with Codeception. • At the moment latest Joomla release is Joomla 3.4.1 • Joomla is a CMS built with PHP.
- 5. How to install Codeception • Codeception allows two methods to install it. Those are ‘Phar’ and ‘Composer’ methods. • I prefer to do the installation using Codeceptions’ Phar file. • Phar is a php file type which allows to compress several php files into a single php file. But user doesn’t need to extract it to local drive to install it. By simply executing several commands can install Codeception framework into application being tested. • My system specifications: Windows, XAMPP
- 7. • Once downloaded the Phar file, paste it to your website root folder. • In my case i’m using XAMPP. So my Phar file will go to ‘C:xampphtdocsJoomlacodecept.phar’ • Then open up your command line tool and I assume you have already installed php into your system. You can check it by simply entering ‘php -v’. • If it shows your php version there then you have installed php already.
- 8. PHP version
- 9. • Then navigate inside to your website root folder. • Now let’s install Codeception. • Type following commands in command line tool. • ‘php codecept.phar bootstrap’ • This command creates codeception.yml file and tests directory. • Tests directory contains all the test scripts. • Basically codeception has three types of testings. Such as acceptance,functional and unit testings.
- 10. Acceptance Test • Now we are going to crate our first acceptance test in Codeception. • Run following command in command line tool.
- 11. • This will creates BackendloginCept.php file inside acceptance tests directory. • Following is Joomla backend. We’re going to automate the login process.
- 12. • First open following file to add the base url. • Add your websites’ base url there.
- 13. • Add following lines to your acceptance test script.
- 14. • Finally you have to run the test script. For that type following command in command line tool. • ‘php codecept.phar run’ • You can see the output on your command line. If you have done it correctly it should pass all the tests and assertions successfully!!! • Thank You