Is there a way to use PHPSpecs matchers independently?

[Adrian Moya]

Hi, I recently made an example of StoryBDD using Behat. In this example, I ended installing PHPUnit to use the assertions as described in Behat docs (http://docs.behat.org/quick_intro.html#more-about-steps)

I'll continue my set of examples with SpecBDD using PHPSpec. But being the two projects almost like brothers, or a pair made in heaven, it feels clumsy to have PHPUnit just for assertions, but use PHPSpec to actually design the classes. 

Is there a way to use PHPSpec matchers as assertions for behat's steps definitions? Can anybody provide a code example?

Thanks,

[Luis Cordova]

if you are using phpunit is because classes were already written

I don't think is a good idea to load phpspec with assertions, you should use phpunit which has a larger framework that can be extended rather and is used for functional tests

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[md]

There is an phpspec extension for that:

https://github.com/MarcelloDuarte/phpspec2-expect

Here is an example of usage with Behat:

https://github.com/sensiolabs/BehatPageObjectExtension/blob/master/doc/index.rst#writing-assertions

Note that a version compatible with the newly release phpspec 2.0.0-BETA1 is not yet available

md

[Luis Cordova]

nice, thanks md

[Luis Cordova]

dont miss this one too http://techportal.inviqa.com/2013/05/02/functionally-testing-your-application-using-mink/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=functionally-testing-your-application-using-mink

maybe you could extend the test case with this extension, that would be really neat

[Adrian Moya]

Thanks Marcello, this is what I was looking for. I'll check it out, it really makes sense to use PHPSpec instead of PHPUnit.

@Luis, my use of PHPUnit is just for assertions in the last step of the scenarios, to check that a condition is met. Not necessarily means that I'm unit testing classes, just checking that the app rendered a response as I expected. Check out the example at my github page, specifically line 61 of the FeatureContext.php.