Switch behat/mink-extension to friends-of-behat/mink-extension

[kdambekalns]

The original package is about to be marked as abandoned, see Behat/MinkExtension#370 (comment)

[baschny]

I just coincidentally worked on this one just today and this is a maze of dependencies, abandoned projects, forks and misinformation on the net. Is Behat not really the "way to go" anymore for PHP based BDD? Is there a better / good alternative to that?

Meanwhile we still use it, and can confirm that this setup works for us (Neos 8):

{
  "require": {
    "behat/behat": "^3.13",
    "friends-of-behat/mink-extension": "^2.7",
    "behat/mink-browserkit-driver": "^2.1",
    "symfony/http-client": "^6.3",
    "behat/mink-selenium2-driver": "^1.6",
    "psr/container": "^1.1"
  },
  "config": {
    "bin-dir": "../../bin/"
  }
}

Comments on that:

• https://github.com/minkphp/MinkGoutteDriver is also deprecated and it recommends using behat/mink-browserkit-driver instead
• Original https://github.com/Behat/MinkExtension is - as you noted - abandoned and does not support "browserkit"
• friends-of-behat/mink-extension added browserkit support, see Add support for BrowserKit driver FriendsOfBehat/MinkExtension#14
• symfony/http-client is what makes the browserkit driver "work" (the driver within the driver...)
• Since these packages all work on later Symfony versions than neos/flow, the psr/container requirement is just there to install older versions of this, else Flow/Neos will not be able to instanciate objects (i.e. Declaration of Neos\Flow\ObjectManagement\ObjectManagerInterface::has($objectName) must be compatible with Psr\Container\ContainerInterface::has(string $id): bool in /app/Packages/Framework/Neos.Flow/Classes/ObjectManagement/ObjectManagerInterface.php on line 60

To "activate" it, you need to:

• add to behat.yml:

  extensions:
    Behat\MinkExtension:
      ...
      browserkit_http: ~
      ...

• remove goutte

[kdambekalns]

I just coincidentally worked on this one just today and this is a maze of dependencies, abandoned projects, forks and misinformation on the net. Is Behat not really the "way to go" anymore for PHP based BDD? Is there a better / good alternative to that?

I checked, and it seems Codeception is a viable alternative…

Meanwhile we still use it, and can confirm that this setup works for us (Neos 8):

Thanks! I'll try that, very helpful!

[mhsdesign]

We dont recommend behat/mink-extension anymore and this package was cleaned up with 9.0

[baschny]

@mhsdesign what's the alternative for browser testing which you (or the Neos Team) recommends?

[mhsdesign]

I would like to move this discussion to slack. But I had good experience with playwright - I think there is no golden bullet

[baschny]

Yes, we had started this discussion once, now I recall: https://neos-project.slack.com/archives/C04PYL8H3/p1695294536168449