Codeception 2.0 RC: Strict Locators

Codeception 2.0 is almost ready for final release. Thanks for everyone who already running alpha/beta version of Codeception and provides us with valuable feedback. If everything goes well the final release will be published in a week. The delay between releases is dictated by the need to allow parallel tests execution. As it was said before: Codeception won’t provide parallel test running out of the box, yet we will add a new chapter into guides where you will learn how to implement parallelism model that matches needs of your project.

Improvements

Strict Locators

In order to provide better element locations you can now specify locators explicitly like this: ['css' => 'input.name']. This will work for PHPBrowser, Frameworks modules, and WebDriver.

<?php
$I->fillField(['css' => 'input.name'], 'jon');
$I->click(['link' => 'Submit']);
$I->seeElement(['xpath' => './/div[@data-name="jon"]']);
?>

Allowed locator mechanisms are:

• id
• name
• css
• xpath
• link
• class

You can use strict locators in your Page Object classes as well.

See Element with Attributes

To improve checking element with expected attributes seeElement now takes second parameter:

<?php
$I->amOnPage('/form/field');
$I->seeElement('input[name=login]');
$I->seeElement('input', ['name' => 'login']); // same as above
?>

dontSeeElement works in corresponding manner.

grabAttributeFrom method added

To fetch value of attribute of element:

<?php
$I->amOnPage('/search');
$attr = $I->grabAttributeFrom('form', 'method');
$attr == 'GET'
?>

Also makeScreenshot method of WebDriver was simplified. Filename of saved screenshot does not include a test name.

Try it

Download:

wget https://codeception.com/releases/2.0.0-RC/codecept.phar

Via Composer:

composer require --dev "codeception/codeception:2.0.0-RC"