Introduction to Codeception
We build web sites with PHP, we build web services and web applications. But is PHP good enough for testing them? How often do you see PHP projects with no line of test written? From my experience,...
View ArticleReleased 1.0.1. Please update
This relese fixes two reported bugs. using see commands on pages with <!DOCTYPE using see commands with non-latin characters. PhpBrowser, Selenium, Frameworks modules were updated. Please update...
View ArticleBehavior Driven Testing with Zend Framework
Codeception is testing framework in which all tests are written in a single descriptive manner. It's aim is to make tests easy to read, easy to write and easy to debug. Every single test you write can...
View ArticleCodeception 1.0.2 Released.
As you may know, Codeception a BDD-style testing framework has tools for cleaning up tested database between tests. This week tools for database repopulation in Codeception were improved and it's...
View ArticleCodeception 1.0.3 Released. Generators and Agile Documentation.
This Codeception release is all about minor but useful features. Starting from 1.0.3 you will be notified on every new Codeception release from console. If you are not running tests, Codeception Cli...
View ArticleBDD Approach to Unit Testing with Codeception.
Codeception is new BDD-style testing framework for PHP. It makes testing easier than it was before. Yep, really. If you are not a fan of testing, that might as well be because you haven't used the...
View ArticleCodeception 1.0.4 Released. Behavior Driven Development.
This release brings a real behavior driven development to Codeception. Before that we talked about testing in BDD-style, but nothing about real development by behavior. There were just few changes...
View ArticleCodeception 1.0.5 Released.
Almost every week Codeception gets a new release. I think it's quite good tempo. Every release contains not only bugfixes but a new features too. I'm satisfied but today's release, because all changes...
View ArticleCodeception 1.0.7 Released.
That was quite a long time after last version was released. This time we decided to skip version 1.0.6, just because 1.0.7 looks prettier. With this release Codeception can be used in CI systems like...
View ArticleCodeception 1.0.8 Released.
From this release you can install Codeception via Composer. If you have fucked up with PEAR it's a good idea to try out brand new Composer. It allows you to install Codeception with all it's...
View ArticleNew Codeception. Zombies and More.
This evening I released Codeception 1.0.9. The most important thing you may notice is documentation. It's just better. It was improved by Jon Phipps. Better phrasing goes to better understanding,...
View ArticleTest WebServices With Codeception
Codeception testing framework got significant improvements during last week. The first and the major one is that you don't even need PEAR and Composer to execute tests. Only one file codecept.phar...
View Article1.0.14 - Custom Assertions In Helpers
Hi, that's been a while from the last release. But still Codeception is evolving. And today's release notes I'm going to start with some thoughts on Codeception installation strategy. For a long time...
View ArticleMajor Codeception Update
Hi, last week Codeception got it's first major update. Welcome the Codeception 1.1. Many core classes were refactored to solve the common issues and reduce the level of dark magic inside. Only white...
View ArticleCodeception with AMQP and Memcached
Good news, everyone! Codeception 1.1.2 released. And it's hard to list everything that were improved and fixed, but i will try. With the help of our active contributor tiger.seo Codeception got an...
View ArticleYetAnotherRelease.
Codeception 1.1.3 and then 1.1.4 was released during last month. In this post I will summarize the changes happened in this minor updates. The 1.1.3 version fixed one bug pointed by Nastya Ahramenko....
View ArticleThe Locator Class
In the latest Codeception 1.1.4 new Locator class was introduced. Basically it should simplify your life in writing complex XPath or CSS locators. Right now it has minimal, yet useful functionality....
View Article5 Reasons to Try Codeception
Codeception is PHP framework for testing web applications in BDD-style. It was started about a year ago, as a plugin for symfony1, to speed up and simplify functional testing inside the framework. But...
View ArticleError Reporting and XmlRPC
It looks like a good time for the new release! Do you agree? And yes, there are enough changes to announce Codeception 1.1.5. In this release we concentrated mostly on fixing bugs and improving error...
View ArticleProTips in Managing UI
Hi, we've decided to start a pro tips post series on Codeception. We hadn't too much time recently, because of the work on our startup Bugira, and the release of community-driven catalog oj Javascript...
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