Drupal tutorial install#

The quick and easy way to view these steps, in our opinion, is to run $ bin/behat -dl in your terminal from the PROJECT/sites/behat folder. GitHub user mikecrittenden has a list of predefined Drupal behat steps that are available if you like to look at them in a browser.

The tests are written using a language called Gherkin, in files with the extension вЂ.featureвЂ™. Now to actually writing the tests! This is the easy part. To learn more about this, visit the Behat and Drupal Extension documentation that we listed above. This creates the features folder where you will write your tests, and your own FeatureContext.php file, where you can define custom steps. You will also need to create a behat.yml file that looks something like this, to configure your testing environment:Д¦. In order for this step to work, you will need composer installed on your machine.

Drupal tutorial install#

In your new Behat folder, create a composer.json file that looks like this:ДЇrom your command line, in PROJECT/sites/behat you will want to run $ composer install to get all of those dependencies installed.

In your local project directory, create a folder called вЂbehatвЂ™ inside of your sites folder: PROJECT/sites/Behat The following steps are what we ironed out to get Behat up and running on Drupal 7 sites locally. Our intention was that they cover some basic Drupal 7 site functionality and can hopefully be implemented on most Drupal 7 projects going forward. Over the course of around two weeks, we were able to put together a small set of features, or tests. The first few days that we spent trying to piece everything together were filled with a constant flux of blind frustration, complete confusion and wonderful epiphanies. The most helpful resources for us were the Drupal Extension to Behat and Mink and the Behat Docs. We discovered that there was not a definitive Behat/Drupal tutorial out there, but there are plenty of little breadcrumbs to go off of.

For the first few days of the project, we were on a quest to gather resources and knowledge. The Process:Д«eing relatively new to the world of development, and with Behat being fairly new to the world of Cheeky Monkey, we didnвЂ™t have many clues right off the bat. We set up a very basic Drupal 7 site on Pantheon and cloned it down on our local machines. We also need a sandbox to play around in with these foreign concepts. Now that we have the вЂњwhy?вЂќ out of the way, it is time to get cracking on some serious detective work. Having these tests available in your back pocket helps you catch bugs in unpredicted areas of your site when youвЂ™re implementing new features. With BDD tests, however, you write plain English вЂњScenariosвЂќ inside of specific вЂњFeaturesвЂќ or вЂњStoriesвЂќ to test how you expect the website to react in response to certain user actions. Unit tests are often reliant on a small piece of code, such as an individual function, so if you change that function, you often have to change the test. This makes the tests very different than say a unit test.

We all know that testing is important, but why do we bother with вЂњBDDвЂќ testing?Д«ehavior-driven development testing is exactly what it sounds like, testing the behavior of the site. On our first day as interns at Cheeky Monkey, we ( Jared and Jordan) were given the task of exploring the somewhat uncharted waters of using Behat, an open source BDD (Behavior-driven development) testing framework, with Drupal 7.