Codeception/Codeception

Features

• PHP Testing Frameworks - Provides a comprehensive testing framework for the PHP ecosystem covering unit, integration, and end-to-end verification.
• ORM Transaction Management - Interacts with databases via domain models and wraps test actions in roll-backable transactions.
• Database Record Manipulation - Provides an interface to create, retrieve, and verify data in the database using table names or models.
• Entity Property Queries - Retrieves single entities or collections from a repository using parameter arrays or complex criteria.
• Table Data Retrieval - Fetches single values, entire rows, or lists of column values from database tables based on search criteria.
• Record Existence Checks - Verifies the presence or absence of specific data records within database tables during test execution.
• REST API Clients - Implements a REST API client that converts request bodies and responses to JSON for streamlined testing.
• Acceptance Testing - Provides tools for acceptance testing by automating real user interactions via a browser.
• Actor-Based Action Mappings - Implements actor-based action mapping to connect natural language Gherkin steps to executable PHP methods.
• Browser Automation - Provides a full-stack framework for simulating user interactions in web browsers to verify frontend behavior.
• Element Interaction - Provides high-level APIs to interact with web elements using CSS or XPath selectors to simulate user input.
• User Interaction Simulation - Automates browser interactions like clicking and form filling to simulate real-world user behavior for acceptance testing.
• Selenium WebDriver Automations - Controls real web browsers via the WebDriver protocol to simulate end-to-end user interactions.
• WebDriver Client Libraries - Provides a client-side API library for sending commands via the WebDriver protocol to automate real browsers.
• BDD Specification Mappings - Parses natural language Gherkin feature files to execute test scenarios aligned with business requirements.
• Gherkin Test Specifications - Uses Gherkin language to create human-readable feature and scenario specifications for Behavior-Driven Development.
• Database Fixture Loading - Populates databases with predefined fixture classes to establish a known starting state for tests.
• Database State Assertions - Enables verification that application actions resulted in the correct data being stored or updated in the database.
• Database Assertions - Verifies that a specific number of rows or column values exist within a table using comparison operators.
• Database State Management - Resets database states between tests by reloading SQL dumps to ensure a consistent starting environment.
• Database Seeders - Populates database connections using specified seeder classes to ensure consistent test environments.
• Functional Web Testing - Emulates web requests and responses without a live server to validate application logic and HTML output.
• Multi-Layer Testing Abstractions - Provides a unified interface to switch between unit, functional, and acceptance testing levels.
• REST API Testing Tools - Ships a client for sending HTTP requests to REST APIs and validating JSON or XML responses.
• Behavior Driven Development - Provides a framework for validating application logic through behavior specifications written in natural language.
• End-to-End Testing - Automates complete user workflows across the application stack to verify system-wide functional correctness.
• Gherkin-based Testing - Enables the execution of end-to-end tests using human-readable Gherkin feature files to verify application behavior.
• Unit Testing - Provides a full-stack environment for executing unit tests to verify the smallest parts of PHP applications in isolation.
• Step Definition Mappings - Maps natural language Gherkin steps to executable PHP methods using regular expressions or attributes.
• Test Execution Filtering - Allows selective execution of test subsets based on suites, classes, methods, or regular expressions.
• Kotlin Unit Testing - Allows for the validation of individual code units in isolation to ensure stability before integration.
• User Workflow Simulation - Enables the emulation of complete user journeys by controlling browser interactions and verifying page content.
• XML Content Validations - Includes utilities for asserting the presence of specific content and structural correctness in XML responses.
• API Response Parsers - Ships utilities for extracting and interpreting structured data from JSON and XML API responses.
• Database Integration Testing - Provides verification of data persistence and retrieval logic using isolated test databases in PHP.
• Browser Session Data Management - Manages browser session data, including the setting and retrieval of cookies.
• Response Body Filtering - Provides tools to extract specific data from API response bodies using JSONPath and XPath for verification.
• BDD Data Tables - Integrates data tables within Gherkin steps to execute a single step with multiple data sets.
• Test Scaffolding Generators - Provides a guided command-line process to generate standardized test boilerplates and configuration directories.
• API Testing Clients - Ships a testing utility for sending HTTP requests to REST and SOAP services and validating their responses.
• Service Containers - Integrates a service container to manage, retrieve, and replace factories and services for dependency control.
• Test Environment Configurations - Allows the definition of configuration profiles to run test suites across different browsers or database environments.
• HTTP Cookie Management - Allows the manipulation of HTTP headers and cookies to simulate specific client environments.
• HTTP Header Manipulators - Provides mechanisms to configure, add, or remove custom HTTP headers for subsequent requests.
• HTTP Response Validation - Validates HTTP response status codes, redirection ranges, and resulting URLs to ensure correct navigation.
• Method Stubbing - Implements method stubbing to redefine repository behavior and return predetermined values during test execution.
• Model-Based Record Generators - Generates randomized test records based on defined models to quickly populate complex database states.
• API Request Authentication - Supports adding authorization headers, tokens, and signatures to API requests for secure communication testing.
• Step Definition Contexts - Provides the ability to specify classes that act as execution contexts for BDD step definitions.
• Container Manipulation - Interacts directly with the application's dependency injection container to override objects and control runtime behavior.
• Dependency Injection Integrations - Injects application services and helpers into test classes to manipulate internal state and mock dependencies.
• Test Service Injections - Uses auto-wiring to resolve and inject required objects or helper classes directly into test methods.
• Module-Based Extensions - Extends testing capabilities through a module-based system for REST, SOAP, and database drivers.
• Response Schema Validators - Verifies that JSON response bodies conform to specific schemas using JSONPath or type definitions.
• Test User Authenticators - Simulates authenticated user contexts via guards and sessions to test protected application areas.
• CI Integration Testing - Supports the execution of automated test suites within CI/CD pipelines to verify code changes.
• Code Coverage Analysis - Tracks executed classes, methods, and lines of code to identify untested areas of the application.
• Data-Driven Testing - Executes the same test scenarios multiple times using different data sets provided via attributes or methods.
• Database Store Verifications - Includes tools to verify data persistence and retrieval logic across both SQL and NoSQL database technologies.
• Database Transaction Rollback Isolations - Wraps test operations in database transactions that roll back after execution to maintain a consistent state.
• Test Result Reporters - Generates JUnit XML and HTML documents summarizing test results and detailed execution steps.
• Page State Assertions - Verifies the presence or absence of text, elements, and attributes within rendered output or raw source.
• HTTP Response Assertions - Provides assertions to verify that HTTP response codes match expected values or categories.
• Database State Management - Provides utilities for seeding fixtures and resetting database records to maintain consistent state across tests.
• Execution Randomizers - Provides the ability to shuffle test execution order to uncover hidden state dependencies.
• Test Skipping Mechanisms - Enables marking specific tests as skipped based on attributes or runtime conditions.
• Test Lifecycle Hooks - Provides mechanisms for executing setup and teardown logic before and after the execution of tests and suites.
• Test Parameterization - Implements dynamic data passing into test steps using placeholders and regular expressions.
• Failed Test Rerunning - Enables running only the specific test cases that failed in a previous session.
• API Request Clients - Includes clients for executing programmatic AJAX requests to verify client-side data exchange and system states.
• Interactive Test Pausing - Allows pausing test execution at specific points to open an interactive shell for variable inspection.
• Scenario-Based Test Authoring - Allows defining tests as a sequence of executable steps in a specific class format to enhance readability.
• Scenario Parameterization - Executes the same BDD scenario multiple times using scenario outlines and examples tables.
• Scenario Prerequisite Steps - Supports the definition of shared initial steps in a background section to reduce repetition across BDD scenarios.
• Code Coverage Reportings - Produces test coverage statistics in HTML and XML formats for visualization and CI integration.
• Test Boilerplate Generators - Generates standardized skeleton files for tests, page objects, and helpers to accelerate suite development.
• Test Case Grouping - Allows organizing BDD features and scenarios into executable groups using labels.
• Test Data Extraction - Pulls specific values from the current page to be used as variables in subsequent test steps.
• Execution Log Debugging - Provides detailed internal logs and step-by-step action reports to diagnose the cause of test failures.
• Test Dependency Managers - Supports defining execution order and prerequisite dependencies between different test suites.
• Web Page Navigation Testing - Automates web page navigation, including opening URIs and clicking links to simulate user journeys.
• HTTP Client Requests - Ships capabilities to execute various HTTP methods with custom parameters and file uploads for server communication testing.
• SOAP Clients - Provides a SOAP client for executing WSDL-based XML requests and testing legacy services.
• Testing and Quality - Full-stack testing framework.

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