Symfony Panther VS PsySH

Use some library with WebDriver API (f.ex. Symfony Panther if you want to stick to PHP, or Playwright) to run tests against your WP backend

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

For headless browser testing with symfony there is symfony panther (https://github.com/symfony/panther)

I did something similar with Symfony Panther combined with ChromeDriver.

For tools, I use PHPUnit, Symfony's PHPUnit helper classes, and Panther (for frontend/headless-browser testing, mostly JS behavior)

If you are comfortable with using composer and third party libraries I would suggest checking out https://github.com/symfony/panther

I like this one recently https://github.com/symfony/panther

Panther

What you're looking for is a package to control a "headless browser". The best one IMO is symfony/panther: https://github.com/symfony/panther

PHP is great, but you need to be a pretty decent developer to use it effectively.

It has a rather nice interactive shell, https://psysh.org/ . I've built non-trivial, non-web systems in it.

Concurrency 'within' the language isn't as nice as some alternatives, but the FCGI-style deployment is quite reliable and convenient in practice.

psysh is an interactive shell that enables developers to explore and experiment with PHP code without the need to write the source code for an entire application. It provides a simple and user-friendly shell interface where you can enter PHP code and instantly observe the results. Also, psysh is a configurable tool equipped with various plugins and modules. Therefore, you can customize it the way you want.

Tinker is a REPL built over psysh which is a general-purpose REPL for PHP. Since a Laravel application is not plain PHP and has states, databases, caches, events, and many more complex resources specific to the framework, it's not possible to interact with the application the way one would expect just using psysh.

Why choose when you can have both in one https://psysh.org/ lol... I testdrove it once, but not convinced (I think the "merged" 2-languages-in-1 is pretty funny but maybe it works for some people).

Would love to see https://psysh.org incorporated in core.

It does! Or rather it used to (and still does for some things) but looks like it broke for stdout and return value dumping a couple of years ago.

PsySH offers a dev console and interactive debugger for PHP projects. In effect, this repo creates a REPL platform for PHP developers.

psysh is a killer tool in situations like this.

And detail more on executing it: https://github.com/bobthecow/psysh/wiki/Usage