Laravel PHP Framework with Codeception Testing

To setup

this assumes you already have PHP >= 5.3 and Composer installed

• laravel new <project name>
• cd <project name>

Require codeception via composer

• composer require codeception/codeception --dev

Setup

• composer exec codecept bootstrap <-- this will create your tests folder and files

Create a testing copy of your .env. file

• cp .env .env.testing

Function Testing Guide

Unit Testing Guide

Acceptance Testing

This demo uses PhantomJS as the browser for accemptance tests.

It can be installed via download from their website, http://phantomjs.org/ or via brew install phantomjs

Change the browser: in your acceptance.suite.yml to phantomjs

We used the Cest style test in this application, which you can generate with the composer exec codecept generate:cest suitename CestName command.

Example test can be found at tests/acceptance/CancelBtnCest.php

To run the test

Start PhantomJS

• phantomjs --webdriver=4444 <-- starts phantomjs on port 4444

Run Codeception Test

• composer exec codecept run tests/acceptance/CancelBtnCest.php