Initialize a New Behat Project¶
The easiest way to start using Behat in your project is to call behat
with the --init
option inside your project directory:
$ vendor/bin/behat --init
After you run this command, Behat will set up a features
directory
inside your project:
The newly created features/bootstrap/FeatureContext.php
will have
an initial context class to get you started:
// features/bootstrap/FeatureContext.php
use Behat\Behat\Context\SnippetAcceptingContext;
use Behat\Gherkin\Node\PyStringNode;
use Behat\Gherkin\Node\TableNode;
class FeatureContext implements SnippetAcceptingContext
{
/**
* Initializes context.
*/
public function __construct()
{
}
}
All step definitions and Hooks necessary for testing your project against your features will be represented as methods inside this class.
Suite Initialisation¶
Suites are a core part of Behat. Any feature of Behat knows about
them and can give you a hand with them. For example, if you defined
your suites in behat.yml
before running --init
, it will actually
create the folders and suites you configured, instead of the default ones.
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