Selenium and Laravel 5.2

Question

I\'m getting sad,

I use Laravel 5.2 and I am developping my unit tests.

In Laravel 5.1, you could use the great Integrated lib to use selenium, but it doesn

Answer 1

You need to install PHPUnit_selenium package using composer

composer require --dev phpunit/phpunit-selenium

Create Selenium Test Case class inside laravel/tests/

setBrowser('firefox');
        $this->setBrowserUrl('http://localhost:8000/');
    }

    protected function visit($path)
    {
        $this->url($path);
        return $this;
    }

    protected function see($text, $tag = 'body')
    {
        print_r(request()->session()->all());
        //method call by tag name;
        $this->assertContains($text,$this->byTag($tag)->text());
        return $this;
    }

    protected function pressByName($text){
        $this->byName($text)->click();
        return $this;
    }
    protected function pressByTag(){
        $this->byTag('button')->click();
        return $this;
    }
    protected function type($value, $name)
    {
        $this->byName($name)->value($value);
        return $this;
    }

    protected function hold($seconds){
        sleep($seconds);
        return $this;
    }
}

and Create new test case for visiting home page url

visit('/')
            ->see('Site title','title');
    }
}

and Run command PHPunit test from terminal

java -jar /usr/local/bin/selenium-server-standalone-2.35.0.jar

Reference document:

• https://gist.github.com/dhavalv/85cd0e8a9a5355543787f882dca0b7cf
• https://www.leaseweb.com/labs/2013/09/testing-your-project-with-phpunit-and-selenium/
• https://www.sitepoint.com/using-selenium-with-phpunit/