The document discusses the current state of Behat and its upcoming version 3.0 release. It notes that Behat has over 468,000 installs and is used by several open source projects. Version 3.0 includes improvements like parallel test execution, actor-based context definitions using multiple context classes, simplified regular expression matching using placeholders, expanded step output formatting, and error handling customization. Continuous integration is supported via TravisCI and Scrutinizer. The full release of Behat 3.0 is targeted for April 20, 2014.

1. behat

2. current state

3. 468 631 installs
since v2.2 (2011-12-14)

4. Sylius
OpenSource E-commerce framework

5. akeneo
OpenSource PIM framework

6. OpenScholar
OpenSource site builder for academic institutions

7. Drupal.org
Big migration driven by Melissa Anderson

8. INVIQA
Enterprise OpenSource agency

9. The BDD in PHP is big!

10. Behat

15. 1. parallel execution

17. 2. growing contexts

18. – Me
“Context class is your domain dictionary
for a specific actor”

19. – Me
“There’s only one context class
for all your features.”

21. 3. actor-based
definitions

22. 3 problems,
1 solution

23. you should be able to test
features against different
contexts

24. v2.x architecture

25. profile

26. profile
.feature #1

27. profile
.feature #1
.feature #2
.feature #3

28. profile
.feature #1
.feature #2
.feature #3
Your Context class (+ Sub-Context classes)

29. Context class
!
definitions
transformations
hooks

30. Context class
!
definitions
transformations
hooks
Behat

31. Context class
!
definitions
transformations
hooks
Behat

33. profile

34. profile
suite #1

35. profile
suite #1
suite #2

36. Suite is a collection
of features and their
test configuration

37. profile
suite #1
suite #2
.feature #1
.feature #2
Your Context class

38. profile
suite #1
suite #2
.feature #1
.feature #2
Your Context class
.feature #3
.feature #4
Your other Context class

39. profile
suite #1
suite #2
.feature #1
.feature #2
Your Context class
.feature #1
.feature #2
Your other Context class

40. suite config
through behat.yml

41. suite config
through behat.yml

42. stop! demo time.

43. contexts

44. profile
suite #1
suite #2
.feature #1
.feature #2
Your Context class
.feature #1
.feature #2
Your other Context class

45. profile
suite #1
suite #2
.feature #1
.feature #2
Your Context classes
.feature #1
.feature #2
Your other Context classes

46. contexts config
through behat.yml

47. contexts config
through behat.yml

48. demo

49. definitions matching

50. @When /^(?:|I )fill in "(?P<field>(?:[^"]|")*)" with "(?P<value>(?:[^"]|")*)"$/

51. regexp’s are hard

52. Turnip
Gherkin extension for RSpec

53. Turnip matching
through placeholders

54. @Given there is a monster called :name

55. @Given there is a monster called :name
Given there is a monster called “Jake”

56. @Given there is a monster called :name
Given there is a monster called “Jake”
Given there is a monster called ‘Jake’

57. @Given there is a monster called :name
Given there is a monster called “Jake”
Given there is a monster called ‘Jake’
Given there is a monster called Jake

58. @Given there is a monster called :name
Given there is a monster called “Jake”
Given there is a monster called ‘Jake’
Given there is a monster called Jake
Given there is a monster called 23

59. @Given there is/are :count monster(s)

60. @Given there is/are :count monster(s)
Given there is 1 monster

61. @Given there is/are :count monster(s)
Given there is 1 monster
Given there are 5 monsters

62. @Given there is/are :count monster(s)
Given there is 1 monster
Given there are 5 monsters
Given there are no monsters

63. Turnip is a new
default

64. both turnip and
regex are supported

65. both turnip and
regex are supported
inside same context class

66. SnippetsAcceptingContext

67. demo

68. Hooks are the 1st
class citizens

69. hooks blowup
in v2.x

70. demo

71. Formatters

72. rewritten from
scratch

73. outline shows step that failed

74. outline steps expand

75. and 1000 other small
improvements

76. output buffering

77. $this->printDebug(‘…’)

78. demo

79. Error handling levels

80. -v

81. exception handling
with Mink or other integrations

82. exception handling
with standard exceptions

83. -v is not --vv

84. how

85. continuous integration
through TravisCI

86. continuous integration
through Scrutinizer

87. v3
in one picture

88. Testwork

89. last demo

90. next steps

91. 3.0.0 rc3 released
and it is gold version

92. behat.org
v2.0 is coming

93. extensions
upgrade

94. and release…

95. 20 april

96. 20 april 2014

97. big thanks to

98. Aslak
Hellesøy
Creator of Cucumber

99. Christophe
Coevoet
@stof

102. Questions?