Codeception VS CodeceptJS

Personal experience: - don’t use Behat unless you really needed a “story telling”, it has a intermediate layer Gherkin that you’ll need to code. You can write “Given/When/Then” steps but you’ll also need to write “php code” that will interpret this step. - using real browser be prepared for instability - any interaction with JavaScript can broken/delay execution - be prepared that this tests are call functional they are the most expensive test, so start small unit then integration and only then functional. - use https://github.com/symfony/panther or https://codeception.com/ you’ll have phpunit alike interface to run them. - you’ll need to reset state of your database each time to provide “isolation” and stability

Codeception: https://codeception.com/

I would say to check out Codeception. Codeceptions has modules for Symfony and database generally. Long and short of it is that if you want you can run api tests that go into the controllers and rollback the database afterwards.

There are enough blog posts about Jest or Cypress already, so let me introduce Codecept. It comes in two flavors. There is Codeception for PHP, and there is CodeceptJS for JavaScript which we will be using here.

There are many tools you can use for this purpose, but one I particularly like is CodeCeption. What I like most about it is that it's a unified tool that can be used to perform several types of tests, acceptance being one of them.

This is a quote from this year's new Testify T-Shirt, my physical takeway from this event. While I don't agree that we should automate everything we can, I still chose this design as it shows Codeception code.

And within the Symfony ecosystem Codeception, which “collects and shares best practices and solutions for testing PHP web applications. With a flexible set of included modules tests are easy to write, easy to use, and easy to maintain.”

But honestly, it may be preferable for you to use a single framework that does support both technologies (Web and Mobile) out of the box like webdriver.io or codecept.

Extending my screenshot tests, I discovered the useful configuration option to set fullPageScreenshots: true. When I wanted to set different window sizes, I was not the first one struggling to resize the browser window in CodeceptJS programmatically.

CodeceptJS – A wrapper for different tools in one interface. Language: JavaScript/TypeScript. Frameworks that are wrapped: Playwright, Webdriver.io, Puppeteer, Protractor, etc. The service also comes with a large community and is easy to install and use for e2e testing.

I'm saddened codeceptJS wasn't even mentioned. It's easily better than most of the ones listed except Cypress.

back when I was doing FE, I found https://codecept.io, which is the same concept as Cypress but with a Playwright driver. Have not used but thought it's worth a mention

There are enough blog posts about Jest or Cypress already, so let me introduce Codecept. It comes in two flavors. There is Codeception for PHP, and there is CodeceptJS for JavaScript which we will be using here.

No mention of Codecept.js?

This is where https://testomat.io comes in. I discovered this TCM whilst working with https://codecept.io/ and part of their Slack group. Testomatio is built by the team behind codeceptjs, bringing in vast experience in test automation behind the scenes.

I think you should add codeceptjs which does API testing on top of selenium / puppeteer tests.

Maybe take a look at https://codecept.io/