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Panther: test your Symfony apps with real web browsers
Les Tilleuls is a self-managed company founded in 2011, experiencing significant growth and actively hiring in Paris and London. The document provides an overview of Symfony Panther, a testing tool designed for web applications that integrates real browser capabilities, facilitates JavaScript testing, and is compatible with various CI platforms. It also introduces AliceBundle for database testing, enhancing the testing environment in Symfony applications.
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Panther: test your Symfony apps with real web browsers
- 2. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas Kévin Dunglas ❏Les-Tilleuls.coop’s Founder ❏ Symfony Core Team ❏ API Platform creator @dunglas
- 3. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas Les-Tilleuls.coop ❏ Self-managedcompany, since 2011 ❏ Entirely owned by the employees ❏ 30 people, 1,000% growth in 6 years! ❏ Hiring in Paris & London: jobs@les-tilleuls.coop
- 4. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas A VerySimple Blog
- 5. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas Install theWebsite Skeleton Symfony + Twig + Doctrine + common dev & debug tools
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- 9. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas Testing aSymfony App
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- 11. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas 3 Componentsto Emulate a Browser
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- 13. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas A WebScraping Library
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- 15. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas Generate aTest Skeleton
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- 18. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas Functional Testsin Symfony ❏ KernelTestcase: ❏ Extends PHPUnit’s TestCase ❏ boots the Symfony app ❏ WebTestCase: ❏ extends KernelTestcase ❏ uses BrowserKit (that uses DomCrawler and CssSelector) ❏ creates HTTP Foundation’s Request and allows to inspect Response through a clean API
- 19. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas WebTestCase iselegant, developer-friendly and fast, but what if: ❏ something is hidden by a faulty CSS rule ❏ a JS error prevents the page to load ❏ the browser blocks the form (XSS detection…) ?
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- 21. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas And whatif you rely on: ? Symfony Encore +
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- 23. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas Why? Because BowserKitdoesn’t support JavaScriptnor CSS
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- 25. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas Panther, ina few words ❏ Executes real web browsers ❏ So, same features than browsers including JS and CSS ❏ Implements BrowserKit’s API ❏ Built on top of Facebook’s PHP WebDriver and the WebDriver Protocol, implements PHP WebDriver’s API ❏ Provide convenient methods for JS testing: ❏ wait, execute script, screenshot… ❏ Standalone lib, for testing and web scraping
- 26. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas Guess what? Youalready master Panther!
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- 29. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas Drop-in replacement forexisting WebTestCase tests and Gouttescripts
- 30. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas Choose yourWeapon 🔪 🔫 💣
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- 33. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas Easy touse, Developer-friendly ❏ Nothing to install ❏ Nothing to configure ❏ neither Selenium, ❏ nor a web server ❏ Panther just works!
- 34. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas You onlyBelieve What you See?
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- 37. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas ChromeDriver ❏ Pantheris shipped with ChromeDriver binaries ❏ It’s a standalone server, exposing a Selenium/W3C compliant WebDriver API ❏ It automatically finds the local Chrome install ❏ It can start Chrome in headless mode!
- 38. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas Panther SupportsAny WebDriver API ❏ ChromeDriver is not mandatory ❏ Experimental support for Geckodriver (same as ChromeDriver, but for Firefox) ❏ Compatible with the Selenium server and Selenium Grid ❏ Compatible with remote testing services such as:
- 39. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas The BuiltinWeb Server ❏ Panther transparently serves your project using the builtin PHP web server ❏ it finds the PHP binary ❏ it finds the document root (public/ with Flex) ❏ it starts the project in test environment ❏ Yes, it works even on Windows!
- 40. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas Panther CanWork with Any Web Server ❏ You use Docker, or Vagrant? ❏ Panther has got you covered ❏ You can configure the URL to use… ❏ …and disable the builtin web server!
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- 42. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas Panther IsCompatible With: ❏ Travis CI ❏ AppVeyor (Windows) ❏ Docker (GitLab CI, Circle CI, custom…) ❏ SauceLabs, BrowserStack and other browser testing services
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- 46. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas Config andEnvironment Variables The builtin web server inherits from env vars set in the current context:
- 47. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas We’re tryingto make this easier, and you can help us:
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- 49. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas Introducing AliceBundle, Panther& WebTestCase’s new best friend
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- 51. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas AliceBundle: What’sInside? ❏ Faker: pseudo-random data generator ❏ Alice: an expressive syntax on top of Faker ❏ Symfony integration (new: Flex integration) ❏ Support for Doctrine ORM, ODM and Eloquent ❏ New: DB testing helpers (inspired by Laravel)
- 52. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas Describe theData you Want
- 54. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas Purge theDB and Load Fixtures before every test:
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- 56. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas Starts andstops the web server for every test suite, instead of every test class. Contributed by @Pierstoval (symfony/panther#30)
- 57. Les-Tilleuls.coop @dunglas github.com/symfony/panther Available rightnow! Thanks! Any question?