Installing behat on a Symfony 2.0 project using deps - what versions? - behat

Question

I have a legacy Symfony 2.0 project (version 2.0.11 to be precise) to which I'd like to add behat tests. As it's Symfony 2.0, it uses the deps vendor system rather than composer. I'm not in a position to upgrade the Symfony version or switch to composer at the moment.
I attempted to install behat using the following deps settings:
[Mink]
target=/Behat/Mink
git=git://github.com/Behat/Mink.git
version=v1.3.3
[MinkBundle]
target=/Behat/MinkBundle
git=git://github.com/Behat/MinkBundle.git
[BehatBundle]
target=/Behat/BehatBundle
git=git://github.com/Behat/BehatBundle.git
[Gherkin]
target=/Behat/Gherkin
git=git://github.com/Behat/Gherkin.git
version=v2.1.1
[Behat]
target=/Behat/Behat
git=git://github.com/Behat/Behat.git
version=v2.3.5
[Goutte]
target=/Goutte
git=git://github.com/fabpot/Goutte.git
(Yes, I know that the BehatBundle etc are outdated, but it looked like I'd need these outdated versions given that I'm using deps and sf2.0.)
When I run vendor/Behat/Behat/bin/behat, I then get the issue described here:
PHP Warning: require_once(behat/autoload.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/sam/wo-code/PersonaBubble/vendor/Behat/Behat/bin/behat on line 23
PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required 'behat/autoload.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /home/sam/wo-code/PersonaBubble/vendor/Behat/Behat/bin/behat on line 23
I realised that behat 2.3.5 doesn't actually have an autoload.php file. I looked through Behat's tags on Github and realised that 2.1.3 was the latest version which had an autoload.php (actually autoload.php.dist, though every earlier version also had autoload.php.dist rather than autoload.php, so I assumed that this was it).
I therefore changed my behat version number in deps to v2.1.3, deleted my vendors and re-installed. The behat command had then changed, so I ran:
php vendor/Behat/Behat/bin/behat.php
I now saw this error:
PHP Fatal error: Class 'Symfony\Component\Console\Application' not found in /home/sam/wo-code/PersonaBubble/vendor/Behat/Behat/src/Behat/Behat/Console/BehatApplication.php on line 26
Does anyone know what the correct versions of behat etc are that I should use to get it working with Symfony 2.0 and deps? Or is there some other step that I'm missing.
PS I ended up running behat via PHAR (although this had other problems so I abandoned it as not worth it). However, I really want to know how to do it via standard vendors install, hence this post.

Answer 1

I'm not in a position to upgrade the Symfony version or switch to
composer at the moment.
I understand what you say but example below might give you a bit of hint I hope! I hope it helps a bit.
I'm sharing what I have been using for all my Symfony2 projects. Behat+Mink+Selenium
CONPOSER:
You need certain versions so that eveyone use same versions of everthing.
mySymfonyProject/composer.json:
"require": {
"behat/behat": "2.5.*#stable",
"behat/behat-bundle": "1.0.0",
"behat/symfony2-extension": "1.1.2",
"behat/mink": "1.5.0",
"behat/mink-extension": "~1.3",
"behat/mink-selenium2-driver": "1.1.1",
"behat/mink-goutte-driver": "1.0.9"
},
"config": {
"bin-dir": "bin"
},
"minimum-stability": "dev",
BEHAT
mySymfonyProject/behat.yml:
default:
context:
class: FeatureContext
extensions:
Behat\Symfony2Extension\Extension:
mink_driver: true
kernel:
env: test
debug: true
Behat\MinkExtension\Extension:
base_url: 'http://mysymfonyproject.local/app_test.php/'
javascript_session: selenium2
browser_name: firefox
goutte: ~
selenium2: ~
paths:
features: %behat.paths.base%/src
bootstrap: %behat.paths.features%/Context
SELENIUM
Download into your project. It is here, make sure you download 2.43.1 version which is in the middle of the page.
Run it: java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.43.1.jar
CONTEXT FEATURE
mySymfonyProject/src/Site/CommonBundle/Features/Context/FeatureContext.php
<?php
namespace Site\CommonBundle\Features\Context;
use Behat\MinkExtension\Context\MinkContext;
use Behat\Symfony2Extension\Context\KernelAwareInterface;
use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\KernelInterface;
class FeatureContext extends MinkContext implements KernelAwareInterface
{
/**
* Hold Symfony kernel object.
*
* #var object Kernel Object.
*/
protected $kernel;
/**
* Helps to use doctrine and entity manager.
*
* #param KernelInterface $kernelInterface Interface for getting Kernel.
*/
public function setKernel(KernelInterface $kernelInterface)
{
$this->kernel = $kernelInterface;
}
//And your own methods
}
TESTS
When you have feature files you can run them like this (this runs all in one go. for more info read behat doc):
bin/behat #SiteCommonBundle