Monthly Archives: November 2012

Testing

Capturing screenshots with Mink, Sahi and PhantomJS

30th November 2012 – 9:00 pm

Following on from my previous post Headless Behat/Mink testing with Sahi and PhantomJS, I wanted to complete the final part of Ryan’s post concerning capturing a screenshot of the page which has failed a test. I had hoped this would be fairly simple, but the march of technology has made Ryan’s post almost obsolete. Also, I am not  fan of his technique, with involves injecting an element into the page from the Phantom setup script. This causes problems if your tests want to move between pages. read more »

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Headless Behat/Mink testing with Sahi and PhantomJS

29th November 2012 – 5:36 pm

We have been using Behat for acceptance testing at work for a while now, but rather informally. I have been interested in it from a CI point of view, especially as our longer term plan is to automate the deployment of several sites from a single codebase. A barrier to this, and to our more recent desire to use Vagrant for controlling our dev environments, was the way in which we were running JavaScript tests using Selenium and Firefox. Today, I decided to cut off the head. read more »

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Setting up Doctrine with Zend Framework 2

4th November 2012 – 3:07 pm

For this post I am working though Jason Grimes’s article http://www.jasongrimes.org/2012/01/using-doctrine-2-in-zend-framework-2/, which in turn is based on Rob Allen’s Album tutorial. The goal is to set up The Doctrine ORM module in Zend Framework 2, and get it working with a simple example. read more »

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