Behat from 0 to Hero: a Practical Guide

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Practical guide to using Behat for testing Symfony apps, showing how to run Behat with Mink and either Selenium or BrowserKit drivers plus the Symfony extension to access services. Covers applying the Page Object pattern to reduce fragile selectors, collapsing steps with backgrounds and transformers to keep contexts small, waiting for an explicit AJAX completion marker instead of sleep, splitting contexts by domain and running tests in parallel, and capturing HTML/screenshots on failure.

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1. 0:00Behat guide
2. 3:52Behat and BDD
3. 12:46Behat main issues
4. 24:14UI testing tools
5. 35:40Inverted test pyramid
6. 43:09Test best practices

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