Codeception webdriver integration

In my previous post of codeception, I posted that how to setup and create codeception acceptance test using phpbrowser. As phpbrowser has following limitation:

• Can click only on links with valid urls or form submit buttons
• Not support input fields that are not inside a form
• Not support JavaScript interactions, like modal windows, datepickers, etc.

So we can integrate codeception with selenium webdriver and can easily handle phpbrowser drawbacks

Approach to setup and execute:

1. First download selenium webdriver jar file from selenium site, save into this in your machine a.

2. Open file “acceptance.suite.yml” and set your application url and webdriver like below.

class_name: AcceptanceTester

modules:

    enabled:

        - WebDriver

        - AcceptanceHelper

    config:

        WebDriver:

            url: 'https://www.google.com'

            browser: firefox

3. Run selenium server using below command.

>>java –jar selenium-server-standalone-2.**.*.jar

4. We need to create acceptance test file, where we can write acceptance test code, to create go to your project root directory and run below command:

>>php codecept.phar generate:cept acceptance GoogleSearch

You should see that “GoogleSearchCept.php” test file generate into acceptance folder.

Also you can write your code into cest file by using below command.

>>php codecept.phar generate:cest acceptance GoogleSearch

Now you should see that “GoogleSearchCest.php” file generated having below syntax

use \AcceptanceTester;

class GoogleSearchCest

{

    public function _before(AcceptanceTester $I)

    {

    }

    public function _after(AcceptanceTester $I)

    {

    }

    // tests

    public function tryToTest(AcceptanceTester $I)

    {

    }

}

5. Rename and write your acceptance test code into “tryToTest” function and you should write setup code into “before” function

use \AcceptanceTester;

class GoogleSearchCest

{

    public function _before(AcceptanceTester $I)

    {

    }

    public function _after(AcceptanceTester $I)

    {

    }

    // tests

    public function tryToTest(AcceptanceTester $I)

    {                                      

                         $I->wantTo('Google search testing keyword');

                         $I->amOnPage('/');

                         $I->fillField('q','testing');

                         $I->click('btnG');

    }

}

Execution:

Run command and see the report in “_output” folder

>>php codecept.phar run --steps