README

Print any information you'd like to a command line during the test suite execution.

Usage

Add @debug tag to your feature definition:

@debug Feature: Test Scenario: Test  # ...

Add extension to your configuration file:

default: extensions: Behat\DebugExtension: ~

Extend your object with a trait:

use Behat\DebugExtension\Debugger; class Example { use Debugger; }

Use the debug method wherever you like:

public function method() { // ... self::debug([ 'Function arguments: %s', 'Second line', ], [ var_export(func_get_args(), true), ]); // ... }

As you can see the debug method processed by sprintf() function, so second argument for a method is an array of placeholders.

Messages

Also, with this extension, you able to print styled messages to a command line.

new \Behat\DebugExtension\Message('comment', 2, [ 'This is a first line of a message that will be printed to a command line.', 'Read documentation for this class to know how to use it.', ]);

Programmatic usage

export BEHAT_DEBUG=true

This environment variable tells that messages should be printed in any way.