Occasionally when writing complicated steps in Behat it’s useful to debug them (perhaps to find out why your tests are failing!).
The Behat test runner is actually just a PHP script run from the command line. As such by declaring a special variable before running the test runner we can trigger a remote debugging session on [...]
Posts Tagged ‘xdebug’
October 10, 2011
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Behat & XDebug: Debugging Steps.
By admin in Development
September 21, 2011
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Behat & XDebug: Testing & Debugging API Calls
By admin in DevelopmentDuring office hours I work on a large PHP Application, we use a service oriented architecture and the application exposes a number of API’s. Recently we have been using Behat and writing BDD tests in Gherkin to test the behaviour of our various APIs.
When developing I always use XDebug’s remote debugging functionality to examine application flow and [...]