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Problem to solve

If you test your application with external service you run into problems of non unique user input. For example registering a user with same email will fail as there is already a user inside your database with this email address.

Scenario: Register a new user Given I fill in "email" with "foo@exmaple.com" And I fill in "password" with "my_scret" And I press "Register Now" Then I should see "foo@exmaple.com" in the ".account-user" element Scenario: Register a new user Given set a random mail in "%email%" placeholder And set a random password in "%password%" placeholder And I fill in "email" with "%email%" And I fill in "password" with "%password%" And I press "Register Now" Then I should see "%email%" in the ".account-user" element Then I should see "Hello %email%" in the ".account-user" element 

Also extracting an given value of newly generate user is possible.

Scenario: Register a new user and check id [...] When set placeholder "%user_id%" of "id" on Doctrine model "AppBundle:User" with "email" equals "%email%" Then print placeholder value of "%user_id%" Then I should see "%user_id%" in the ".account-user-id" element 

All placeholder are compatible with foreign Context arguments.

Installation

$ composer require espend/behat-placeholder-extension

# behat.yaml default: suites: default: contexts: - espend\Behat\PlaceholderExtension\Context\PlaceholderContext extensions: espend\Behat\PlaceholderExtension\PlaceholderExtension: ~

Feature Steps

All placeholder are valid per Scenario scope. They are cleaned before and after every Scenario.

Given set a placeholder "%foobar%" with value "my_foobar" Given set a random mail in "%mail%" placeholder Given set a random password in "%password%" placeholder Given set a random text with length "15" in "%text%" placeholder Given set current date as "Y-m-d" format in "%date%" placeholder Given print placeholder value of "%date%" Given print all placeholder values 

Doctrine

To interact with the underlying Database there also some Doctrine steps. They only work on a Test Suite / Extension using Behat\Symfony2Extension

Given set placeholder "%foobar%" of "id" on Doctrine model "AppBundle:Car" with "name" equals "bmw" Given set placeholder "%foobar%" of "id" on Doctrine model "AppBundle\Entity\Car" with "name" equals "bmw" 

# behat.yaml default: suites: default: contexts: - espend\Behat\PlaceholderExtension\Context\DoctrinePlaceholderContext extensions: # [...] Behat\Symfony2Extension: ~ Behat\MinkExtension: sessions: default: symfony2: ~

# composer.json "behat/mink-extension": "*", "behat/symfony2-extension": "*", 

Placeholder Context Injection

If you want access to placeholders in you custom Context you implement the espend\Behat\PlaceholderExtension\Context\PlaceholderBagAwareContextInterface Interface See PlaceholderContext for a full working example

class PlaceholderContext implements Context, PlaceholderBagAwareContext {} 

TODOs

• Pipe placeholder arguments for console command: bin/behat --placeholder="%foobar%=foo"
• More Doctrine related steps
• More Placeholder specific steps