StoryBDD with Behat

StoryBDD with Behat

Behavior Driven Development for Testers

About the Book

Behaviour Driven Development becomes interesting topic to discuss in recent days. There are several books on how to use BDD as a process or how to use BDD tools to fit in your existing process. Behat is a tool developed by Konstantin Kudryashov. Behat made BDD possible for PHP applications. This book is not about process. This book covers hands on tutorials on StoryBDD with Behat. This book will not cover class SpecBDD aspects. This book is aimed at Technical & non-technical Testers to get started with Behat. This book will cover basic concepts of BDD, Behat, Mink, Page Object Pattern and databse testing with Behat.

After Reading this book, you will learn

  • What's Tester's role in the BDD project.
  • How to use Composer to install Behat and related libraries.
  • How to setup Behat/Mink Framework with example project.
  • How to use different libraries like Selenium, WebDriver, Sahi for browser automation.
  • How to organise BDD Scenarios.
  • How to use Page Object Pattern with Behat/Mink.
  • How to write API level tests and how to write tests interacting with Database.
  • How to test HTTP traffic with Behat.
  • How to test your Mobile Apps with Behat
  • Little bit about Cloud Testing and Continuous Integration.

Please note, this book is a work in progress (WIP), You will be notified when it is fully published. Stay Tuned !

About the Author

Shashikant Jagtap
Shashikant Jagtap

Shashikant Jagtap [@Shashikant86]

Shashikant worked as Automation Engineer for few years in the UK. Shashikant is passionated about the BDD and keen on technical testing. He is not fan of Manual Testing though. He likes to analyse open-source automation tools and use those in the projects. You can read his blogs on his website. Shashikant is mad fan of social media and uses lot of social networking tools. Read more at his about me page

He lives in London and loves London like a Mad. He is also on of the organizer of "London Behat Users" Group.

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