Testing Area/Behat Testing/Basics

How to write a Behat test

Behat tests are written in Gerkin language, which is English readable. You write the test in a text editor like Vim, Gedit or Eclipse. For beginners, Gedit is reccomended. To write the test start with the feature, you are about to click around Mahara and test an area so say:

 Feature: Creating a Portfolio page <- (the point of the test)
 In order to have a portfolio page in Mahara <- (What you are wanting to do)
 As a student <- (Who you are logging in as eg student, admin, institution admin)
 So I can save my work on my Portfolio page <- (How you benefit from it)

 Scenario: Creating a Portfolio page <- (Describe what you are about to do to test it works)
 Given (Setting the scene, these are you pre conditions)
 And  (Use as many And's as you need to set the pre conditions)
 When (This is an action you do like clicking or pressing a button)
 And  (Use as many And's as you need to describe the action you are doing like pushing 10 buttons to get to the place you want)
 Then (This is the achieveable outcome. Often it's what you see when the link you clicked worked.) 
 And  (Use as many And's as you need) 

Write down every link you click and every button you pushed to create the page using the specific Behat syntax from this page [1]. These are you Given, And, When and Then steps.

Behat test example:

 Feature: Creating a Portfolio page
 In order to have a Portfolio Page in Mahara
 As a student
 So I can save my work on my Portfolio page

 Scenario: Creating a Portfolio page 

Given I am logged in as the user "admin" with password "Password1"

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You can follow the Behat documentation below on how to write a test:

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