Changelog

2.4.5

• Fixed PHPUnit 7.2 compatibility.
• Introduced RunBefore extension to execute scripts before running tests. See #5049 by aashmelev.
• [Db] Added two options for MySQL by bangertz
  • ssl_cipher - list of one or more permissible ciphers to use for SSL encryption
  • ssl_verify_server_cert - disables certificate CN verification
• [Db] Always disconnect before connect when reconnect is set. By ashnazg
• [Db] More explicit PDO closing upon destruction and close opened transactions by ashnazg.
• [Recorder Extension] Improved error logging by OneEyedSpaceFish. See #5101
• [Lumen] Fixed file uploads via REST module. By retnek.
• Fixed: function getMetadata() may not exist, results in fatal error. See #4913 by marcovtwout

2.4.4

• Recently added extends property in the codeception.yml and *.suite.yml files now support absolute paths; by silverfire
• Fixed absolute paths handling on Windows in ParamLoader; by silverfire
• [Yii2] Refactored database connection handling by SamMousa. Database connections should now always be closed after tests no matter how you have opened them or who is holding references to them. See #5045
• [Symfony] Email handling improved by mbohal. Fixes #5058.
  • Added optional argument $expectedCount to seeEmailIsSent
  • Added dontSeeEmailIsSent
• [Recorder Extension] Added ignore_steps option to disable recording of specific steps. By sspat.
• [WebDriver] Fixed “No Session Timeout” fatal error by davertmik.
• [WebDriver] Added ability to locate clickable element by its title. See #5065 by gimler
• [Db] Add waitlock config option for the database session to wait for lock in Oracle. By ashnazg. See #5069
• [REST] Fixed seeXmlResponseEquals by Voziv

2.4.3

• Create your own test formats (e.g., Cept, Cest, …); by mlambley
• [Symfony] Fixed a bug in order to use multiple Kernels; by alefcastelo
• [Asserts] Added new methods assertNotTrue and assertNotFalse methods; by johannesschobel
• [REST][PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Added new methods to check for Http Status Ranges with nice “wrappers” (e.g., seeHttpStatusCodeIsSuccessful() checks the code between 200 and 299); by johannesschobel
• Improved the docs; by community

2.4.2

• Added support for extends in the codeception.yml and *.suite.yml files; by johannesschobel. Allows to inherit current config from a provided file. See example for functional.suite.yml:

actor: FunctionalTester
extends: shared.functional.suite.yml
modules:
    enabled:
        - \App\Modules\X\Tests\Helper\Functional

• [Yii2] Restore null check for client in Yii2 by wkritzinger. See #4940
• [Yii2] Resetting Yii application in _after. By SamMousa. See #4928
• [Yii2] Breaking $settings['configFile'] now supports absolute paths. In you have defined relative path to config in absolute manner
• [WebDriverIO] Added deleteSessionSnapshot by vi4o
• [Symfony] Added support for custom kernel names with kernel_class config option. By omnilight.
• [Asserts] Better exception message for expectException by Slamdunk
• [REST] Decode all non-arrays to array. See #4946 by Amunak, fixes #4944.
• [ZF2] Fixed compatibility with ZF2 ServiceManager by omnilight.
• [Laravel5] Fixed memory leak when using Laravel factories inside Codeception. See #4971 by AdrianSkierniewski
• [Db] Added support for null values in MSSQL driver by philek
• Handle absolute paths in ParamsLoader by SilverFire
• Fix error on single file test. See #4986 by mikbox74
• Upgraded to Codeception/Stub 2.0 by Naktibalda, fixed compatibility.

2.4.1

• Fixed “Uncaught Error: Call to undefined method Codeception\Test\Descriptor::getTestDataSetIndex()” error when filtering tests.
• Better support of PHPUnit warning status by edno:
  • support PHPUnit addWarning()
  • display ‘W’ instead of success for warning test cases
• Fixed Running test with invalid dataprovider by okneloper. Fixed #4888 by edno
• [Yii2] Request flow and database transactions refactored (by sammousa):
  • Breaking Application is no longer available in helpers via $this->getModule('Yii2'')->app, now you must use \Yii::$app everywhere
  • Multiple databases are now supported
  • More reliable application state before and during test execution
  • Fixtures method is now configurable
  • Subset of misconfigurations are now detected and informative messages created
• Fixed using $settings['path'] in Codeception\Configuration::suiteSettings() on Windows by olegpro
  (starting with /), you must change it. silverfire
• [Laravel5] Added Laravel 5.4+ (5.1+ backward compatible) support for callArtisan method in Laravel5 module. See #4860 by mohamed-aiman
• Fixed #4854: unnecessary escaping in operation arguments logging by nicholascus
• Fixed humanizing steps for utf8 strings by nicholascus. See #4850
• Fixed parsing relative urls in parse_url. See #4853 by quantum-x

2.4.0

• PHPUnit 7.x compatibility
• Dropped PHP 5.4 and PHP 5.5 support (PHP 5.5 still may work)
• Internal API refactored:
  • Modern PHP class names used internally
  • Moved PHPUnit related classes to codeception/phpunit-wrapper package.
  • Removed shims for underscore PHPUnit classes > namespaced PHP classes
• Cest hooks behavior changed (by fffilimonov):
  • _failed called when test fails
  • _passed called when tests is successful
  • _after is called for failing and successful tests

Upgrade Notice: If you face issues with underscore PHPUnit class names (like PHPUnit_Framework_Assert) you have two options:

• Lock version for PHPUnit in composer.json: “phpunit/phpunit”:”^5.0.0”
• Update your codebase and replace underscore PHPUnit class names to namespaced (PHPUnit 6+ API)

2.3.9

• Added Codeception\Step\Argument\PasswordArgument to pass sensitive data into tests:

<?php
use \Codeception\Step\Argument\PasswordArgument;

$I->amOnPage('/form/password_argument');
$I->fillField('password', new PasswordArgument('thisissecret'));

• [WebDriver] added clearField method to clean up input fields by eknej
• [DataFactory] added make method to create instances without saving them to database. But ibpavlov
• [REST] Fixed passing a file to sendPOST() without name, size or type parameter. BY zebraf1
• [REST] Add missing / to relative url from config by bscheshirwork
• Fixed HTML Report marks tests as succeeded by mpgo13
• clean command works recursively with included setups. By davidnewcomb

2.3.8

• Codeception\Util\Stub moved to standalone package Codeception\Stub:
  • Use Codeception\Stub instead of Codeception\Util\Stub
  • Mocking methods ::once, ::never, etc moved to Codeception\Stub\Expected class
  • Calling mocking methods from Codeception\Util\Stub provides deprecation warning.
  • Non-static API is recommended to use for mocking
• [WebDriver] Added executeAsyncJS action to run asynchronous scripts.
• [WebDriver] Added second parameter to executeJS to pass additional arguments into JavaScript function.
• [Yii2] setCookie signs cookies when signing enabled. #4656 By SamMousa
• [Yii2] Method createAndSetCsrfCookie added. #4656 By SamMousa
• Compatibility with phpunit-mock-objects 5.* by Naktibalda
• [DataFactory] Removed dependency to league/factory-muffin-faker by Naktibalda and Insolita
• Fixed auto-rebuilding Actor classes when dependencies are used. See #4694 by stefankleff.
• [Symfony] allows to use Symfony Dotenv component to parse .env files. Fix by ebuildy
• Added the ability to export the code coverage data in PHPUnit xml format by tobiasstadler
  • --coverage-phpunit option added
  • Allows to use mutation testing with Inflection
• [ZendExpressive] Added Doctrine2 integration by artmnv
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Added _getResponseStatusCode hidden method for using in helpers. By FanchTheSystem
• [Yii2] Use Yii DI to instantiate record class. Fixes #4762. By bscheshirwork
• Remote Code Coverage improvements #4768 by bscheshirwork
  • Remove :port for cookie domain;
  • ->amOnPage('/'); executed when running code coverage with WebDriver
• Fixed running single test with include config parameter. Fixes #4733 by ppetpadriew
• Fixed running single test when a custom suite path is configured (For instance, in single-suite setups).
• generate:test command won’t include tester property if actor is not set for this config.
• [Facebook] Module is not maintained and is deprecated. If you are using it and you want to keep it, please contact us.

2.3.7

• Symfony 4 support implemented by VolCh.
  • Dependencies updated to support Symfony 4.x components.
  • [Symfony] Support for Symfony Flex directory and namespace structure
  • Demo application was updated to Symfony 4.0
• [Db] seeInDatabse, dontSeeInDatabase, grabFromDatabase and other methods to support SQL comparison operators: <, >, >=, <=, !=, like. Thanks susgo and Naktibalda.
• [Db] Fixed quoting around schema identifiers in MSSQL by Naktibalda. See #4542.
• [Db] Added SSL options for connection. Thanks kossi84
• [Db] Fix getting Database name from DSN in MSSQL by yesdevnull.
• [PhpBrowser] Fixed setting User-Agent in config via headers. Fixed #4576 by Naktibalda.
• [WebDriver] Implemented dontSeeInPopup by kpascal.
• [WebDriver] Allow to click a button located by its title attribute. See #4586 by gimler.
• [Silex] app property added to public API. Thanks sky003
• [Yii2] Pass DB to Yii application as early as possible to reuse old connection. By SilverFire. See #4601
• [Yii2] Resetting global event handlers after a test. See #4621 by SamMousa
• [Yii2] Recreate request object to reset headers and cookies before each request. Fixes #4587 by erickskrauch
• [MongoDb] Allowing .tgz files to be accepted for database dumps. #4611 by Lukazar
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Fixed usage of see when source code contains <= JS operator. By tobias-kuendig Fixes #4509.
• [Queue] Added configuration parameter endpoint for AmazonSQS by gitis.
• Fixed signature error in DummyCodeCoverage::stop See #4665 by network-spy
• Throw exception if exit(0) was accidentally called. Fixes false-positive test reports. See #4604 by Fenikkusu.
• Fixed using path: tests: . in configuration. Fixes #4432 by marcovtwout
• Fixed suite name containing slash in remote code coverage. #4612 by bscheshirwork
• Improved generated actions file by removing redundant use section. #4614 by bscheshirwork
• Don’t skip last test if some test has missing dependency by Naktibalda. Fixes #4598
• Improved PHP 7.2 compatibility by FanchTheSystem. See #4557
• Implemented Descriptor::getTestSignatureUnique to create unique names for tests. See #4673 by Tenzian. Fixes #4672
• Fixed setExpectedException() default value for PHPUnit 5.7.23 by MilesChou. See #4566
• Fixed printing wrong failed step by eXorus. See #4654
• Fixed undefined argv warnings, added check for register_argc_argv. Fixes #4595 by Naktibalda
• Added init command to codecept.phar by Naktibalda.

And many thanks to our awesome contributors! Thanks to VolCh for upgrading to Symfony 4, thanks Naktibalda for patches and reviews and thanks to carusogabriel for refactoring tests.

2.3.6

• Laravel 5.5 compatibility. Laravel5 module documentation updated.
• [Doctrine2][DataFactory] Fixes using Doctrine2 with DataFactory module. See #4529. Fix by samusenkoiv
• [REST] Fixed JsonType crash when key 0 is not an array. Fixes #4517 by Naktibalda
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] haveHttpHeader enhanced to handle special characters. #4541 by bnpatel1990
• [WebDriver] Delete all cookies before loading session snapshot. Fix by eXorus. See #4487
• Added suite_namespace config option to suite config. Allows to set custom namespace for tests per suite. #4525 by pohnean
• [Db] Module enhancements by eXorus:
  • added updateInDatabase method
  • added hidden _insertInDatabase to insert record without cleanup
• [Yii2] Set transaction also in backupConfig when initializing yii2 module
• [Yii2] Unload fixtures after rolling back database transaction. By devonliu02 (#4497)
• [Yii2] Use andWhere instead of where in Yii module’s findRecord() by SamMousa. See #4482
• [REST] Added amNTLMAuthenticated for NTLM authentication using PhpBrowser. By Tenzian
• Inject exception file and line number frame into stack trace in case it is missing. By rhl-jfm at #4491)
• Extension\RunFailed. Added fail-group parameter to customize name of a failed group. By @ maxgorovenko
• Added \Codeception\Util\Fixtures::exists() method by eXorus
• Added line number to TestParseException exception message by gaainf. See #4446
• Fixed init command: create the _generated folder before writing a .gitignore file there by nstapelbroek. See #4449
• Better failure messages for @dataProvider by sh41. See #4439
• Fixed aliasing issue with Codeception/Verify by ddinchev

2.3.5

• Fixed HTML report with unencoded HTML code by mpgo13. See #3819 #4423
• Made assertArraySubset protected across all modules by guidocella
• [WebDriver][PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Added support for associative arrays in seeInFormFields by guidocella
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Submit default values of checkboxes. See #4411 by guidocella
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Make seeInField check options’ texts and trimmed texts. By guidocella
• [PhpBrowser] Prevents submitForm to submit inputs in disabled fieldsets. Fixes #4426 by moebrowne
• [PhpBrowser] Fixed amOnUrl with empty path component. If path component was empty, it used previous url. Fixes #4383 by Naktibalda
• [Db] Improved postgres cleanup (recreate schema) by samusenkoiv
• [Laravel5] Don’t duplicate associative array fields on form submission. See #4414 by guidocella
• [WebDriver] Fixed webDriver->getCapabilities() for facebook/php-webdriver < 1.3 (could happen on PHP 5.4, 5.5). Fixes #4435
• [WebDriver] Make wait accept fractional amount of seconds to wait for less than a second. By gvlasov
• [Laravel5] Changing params loader to use $_SERVER global instead of $_ENV. See #4401 by EricTendian
• [Mongo] Fixes haveInCollection using __toString. See #4442 by samusenkoiv
• Dereferencing variables for Steps output. Fixes #4402 by alambe
• [Symfony] Load persistent services before loading profiler. See #4437 by samusenkoiv

2.3.4

• Added @prepare annotation to make realtime configuration for tests in Cest and Test classes. See documentation.

Example: disabling Doctrine2 database transaction for a test

<?php
/**@prepare disableTransactions */
function testDoctrine()
{
}

protected function disableTransactions(Doctrine2 $module)
{
   $module->_reconfigure(['cleanup' => false]);
}

• [WebDriver] SmartWait. Automatically waits for a few extra seconds for element to appear on a page before failing. Can reduce high usage of wait* methods. See Documentation
• Added RunProcess extension. Use it to start/stop Selenium (or other process) automatically for a test suite.
• [WebDriver] Customization improvements:
  • added start option to disable autostart of a browser for tests. (can be useful for Cloud testing setups)
  • added _capabilities method for setting desired capabilities in runtime (can be combined with @prepare annotation)
  • _initializeSession and _closeSession can be used in Helpers to start and stop browser manually (combine with start: false config)
• Fixed running a single test from a global config when using included configs. See #4366 by zebraf1 (improves PhpStorm integration)
• [Doctrine2][Laravel5][Yii2][Phalcon] Print debug information for started/stopped transactions in tests. See #4352
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] click with context respects base tag #4330 by Naktibalda.
• [Yii2] Split cleanup configuration option (backward-compatible): (#4379 by leandrogehlen)
  • cleanup - to cleanup loaded fixtures
  • transaction - wrap tes into transaction
• [Asserts] Added assertStringStartsWith and assertArraySubset by guidocella
• [Db] Added updateInDatabase method by eXorus. See #4385
• In helpers and modules to check $module::$excludeActions property for existence before accessing it. Fixes #4381 by CactusCoder
• [Symfony] Fixed printing debug response when Symfony::extractRawRoles() failed on security collector (Symfony >= 3.3) #4309 by Basster
• [Laravel5] Fixed bug with disable_exception_handling functionality. See #4370. By janhenkgerritsen
• [Db] Added grabColumnFromDatabase to fetches values from the column in database. By RebOOter

2.3.3

• Fixed running with --coverage, --xml, --html options without parameters (Symfony Console 3.3 compatibility).
• Removed files section from composer.json (regression from 2.3.2) to avoid unintentionally loading shim files. Fixes Yii migration issue.
• [WebDriver] saveScreenshot allows to save screenshots with no name passed in. See #4263 by eXorus
• [REST][PhpBrowser] Fixed #4287, using empty values for headers by tobiastom.
• Phar self-update downloads php5.4 build if php version <7.0. Fixes #4269

2.3.2

• [Db] Fixed: Database has been cleaned up between tests even with cleanup: false.
• [Db] Made dump optional if populator is set. Fixes #4247
• Fixed generate:suite command to create a directory for the suite. Fixes #4251
• Fixed composer autoloading with PHPUnit 6 by enumag. See #4262

2.3.1

• Updated composer constraints to include PHPUnit 6.x

2.3.0

• PHPUnit 6.x support #4142 by MontealegreLuis. Class aliases are used, so PHPUnit 4.x and 5.x (for PHP <7) are still supported as well.
• Suite customization. Announcement
• Installation Templates. Announcement
• DotReporter introduced. Use it with

  codecept run --ext DotReporter
  

• --ext parameter added to load extensions dynamically.
• Db Populator Announcement by brutuscat
• [Db] New configuration defaults, cleanups are disabled: cleanup: false, populate: false. Enable them to load dumps between tests.
• [Redis] New configuration defaults, cleanups are disabled: cleanupBefore: 'never' by hchonan
• Command generate:phpunit removed.
• Bootstrap _bootstrap.php files are disabled by default.
• Configuration changes: actor replaced with actor_suffix in global config
• Configuration changes: class_name replaced with actor in suite config

2.2.12

• Don’t skip other tests after a failed test #4226 by Naktibalda
• [REST] seeResponseContainsJson doesn’t crash when json response is not an array by Naktibalda
• [PhpBrowser] Fixed redirecting to schemaless url by Naktibalda #4218
• [Doctrine2] Added grabEntityFromRepository, grabEntitiesFromRepository methods by maximelebastard

2.2.11

• [WebDriver] Added _restart method to restart browser with a new configuration.
• [WebDriver] Added _findClickable to public API so can be used from helpers. By tiger-seo
• [WebDriver] seeLink compares relative links correctly #4182
• [Webdriver] fixed attachFile messages when the file does not exist by Naktibalda
• Fixed setting paths in environments and using --override options. By kusnir. See #4143
• [Yii1] Allow to set only host in url config. #4172 by SG5.
• [Yii1] Allow to make requests end with slash. #4190 by SG5
• [Yii2] Allows use InitDbFixture feature #4201
• [Yii2] Add missing YII2 lifecycle events. #4187
• Don’t run test if exception was thrown in _before of a module #4197 by Naktibalda
• [Mongo] Fixed parsing dbname. See #4186 by retnek
• [Mongo] Improved legacy driver check by retnek. See #4178
• [WebDriver][PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Added grabPageSource method by Kolyunya
• [PhpBrowser][REST] Add DELETE method to supported form data request methods in Guzzle6 by
• [PhpBrowser][REST] Restore request headers in multi-session testing. Fixes #4157
• Recorder Extension: Replace non-alphanumeric characters with underscores by tiger-seo. Fixes Recorder on Windows
• [REST] Documented different ways to upload files
• Fixed $scenario->current('name') #4154 by Naktibalda
• [AMQP] Documented parameters of declareQueue, declareExchange by Naktibalda
• [Doctrine2] Safe prefix aliases for buildAssociationQuery by jfxninja. See #4195
• Fixed output of failed step by Naktibalda #4135 http://phptest.club/t/seeelement-wierd-fail-message/1470
• [WebDriver] fixed friend->leave method. Clearing base element on closing session. Fixes #4098
• [Symfony] Make symfony bootstrap.php.cache optional for php version > 7 by patrickjahns
• Gherkin: Command gherkin:snippets to generate stub function name for non-english features. By kuntashov
• Gherkin: Steps with PyString and with inline string argument considered the same. Fixes #4121 by kuntashov
• [Db] Oci::cleanup() should be able to drop objects with case sensitive name. By pavelkovar
• [Db] loadDump reports sql statement which caused error, fixes regression from 2.2.10. See #4120. By Naktibalda.
• [Asserts] Add delta parameter to assertEquals() assertNotEquals() methods by spideyfusion
• [Yii2] Removed check and notification for environment other than test by samdark
• [Yii2] Unload fixtures only if cleanup configuration equals true. #4207 by Faryshta
• [ZF2] Removed session_write_close() from ZF2 module by tasselchof. Fixes #4112
• Fixed textual representation of can’t steps by Naktibalda
• [Lumen] Added IoC methods from Laravel5 module: haveBinding, haveSingleton, haveContextualBinding, haveInstance, haveApplicationHandler, clearApplicationHandlers. By kt81
• [Lumen] Clear facade cache only when facade exists. Same change as #3124 for refactored Lumen module by kt81
• [ZendExpressive] Support Zend Expressive 2.0 by Naktibalda
• [Doctrine2] haveFakeRepository updated to work with Doctrine >= 2.5.7 by laszlo-karpati #4212
• Command bootstrap adds support/_generated to gitignore. By Naktibalda

2.2.10

• Prefer local composer installation if available. Solves issues with incompatibility between locally and globally installed or packaged in phar file Codeception dependencies. Fix by Naktibalda See #3997
• Added console completion by gdscei. See documentation
• [WebDriver] Fixed compatibility with facebook/webdriver 1.4.0 by Naktibalda. See #4076 Fixes #4073
• Run a suite by its path #4079

codecept run tests/unit

Improves recent PHPStorm integration. Codeception tests can be started by running a suite directory.

• [WebDriver] Fixed using performOn with ActionSequence; supporting multiple actions of same kind. #4066 by davertmik. Fixes #4044
• [Laravel5] Added haveApplicationHandler and clearApplicationHandlers methods. See #4068. By janhenkgerritsen
• [Laravel5] Close all Laravel DB connections after test execution. Fixes #4031 by rmblstrp
• [Laravel5] Update Laravel5 database_migrations_path to by null by default by timbroder. Fixes #3990
• [DataFactory] Add cleanup option to skip auto cleanup. By alexpts. See #3996
• Fixed printScenarioFail with multiple feature scenarios by gimler. See #3868
• Fixed generating JUnit XML when Selenium server can’t be connected. Closes #3653 by Naktibalda
• Fixes running local suites (under tests folder) and included suite mixed (via include path). See #4063
• [Db] Run the last statement in dump file even if it doesn’t end with delimiter. #4071 by Naktibalda. Fixes #4059
• [Memcache] Fixed calling flush on null by Jurigag. See #4074
• [Yii2] Fixtures behavior compatibility with yii2-codeception by leandrogehlen. See #4016
• g:suite allows generate suites with uppercase names. Fixes #4072
• Enabled incomplete/skipped/risky/warning settings for logger. See #3890. By mario-naether

settings:
    report_useless_tests: false
    disallow_test_output: false
    be_strict_about_changes_to_global_state: false
    log_incomplete_skipped: false

• [WebDriver] Fixed double coverage cookie check by boboldehampsink. See #2923 #4020
• [WebDriver] Fixed switchToIframe regression from 2.2.9 by lcobucci. PR #4000
• Speed improvement for group lookup by pitpit. See #4025
• Added parse error to TestParseException in PHP7 by Naktibalda. See #4007
• Auto injection for Codeception\Test\Unit format #4070. Allows to customize injection of support objects into a testcase:

<?php
public function _inject(UnitTester $unit)
{
    $this->i = $unit;
}

2.2.9

• [Laravel5] Laravel 5.4 support by janhenkgerritsen
• [WebDriver] Added performOn to wait for element, and run actions inside it. See complete reference. #3986
• [WebDriver] Improved error messages for wait* methods by disc. See #3983
• [REST] Binary responses support by spikyjt #3993 #3985
  • seeBinaryResponseEquals assert that binary response matches a hash
  • seeBinaryResponseEquals assert that binary response doesn’t match a hash
  • hide binary response on debug
• [Laravel5] module fix error for applications that do not use a database. See #3954 by janhenkgerritsen. Fixed #3942
• [Laravel5] database seeders to be executed inside a transaction. See #3954 by janhenkgerritsen. Fixed #3948 by janhenkgerritsen
• [Yii2] reverted #3834, closing transaction after each request. #3973 by iRipVanWinkle. Fixes #3961
• Added crap4j report support. Use --coverage-crap4j option and codeception/c3 2.0.10
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] If form has no id, use action attribute as identifier by Naktibalda. Fixes #3953
• Fixed test coloring output when a Feature title has some special chars in it like / or -
• [REST] Added missing part json and xml to deleteHeader by freezy-sk

2.2.8

• [WebDriver] Added tab actions (not supported in PhantomJS):
  • openNewTab opens a new tab and switches to it
  • closeTab closes a tab and switches to previous
  • switchToNextTab switches to next tab
  • switchToPreviousTab switches to previous tab
• [WebDriver] Added actions to click element by coordinates. Via gimler
  • clickWithLeftButton clicks element with offset
  • clickWithRightButton right clicks on element with offset
• [WebDriver] Added js_error_logging option to print JS logs in console and in HTML report by ngraf. See #3821
• [WebDriver] Improvements to seeInField by gimler. See #3905
  • support option text in seeInField not only value
  • fix bug match with and without whitespaces
  • fix bug seeInField not working after selectOption
• [Wedriver] pageload_timeout config option added. The amount of time to wait for a page load to complete before throwing an error. This patch allows to reduce issues from phantomjs random freezing. See #3874. Thanks to oprudkyi
• [WebDriver] checkOption can check option by name #3852. By gimler
• [WebDriver] Fixed clicking numerical links, like <a href='/'>222</a> (DOM Exception 12 errors). See #3865. By gimler
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Fixed #3824 when submitForm used wrong value for select by JorisVanEijden
• [Laravel5] Added seeNumRecords and grabNumRecords methods. See #3816. By dmoreno
• Improved @depends to work with @dataprovider. Fixes #3862. Thanks edno
• Fixed relative paths for screenshots in HTML report. Fixes #3857
• Improved error description when injecting invalid classes by timtkachenko
• Improved --override option to support deep configs. See #3820
• [Yii2] Clear unloaded fixtures after test. Closes #3794
• [PhpBrowser] Ensure sessions have independent cookies by insightfuls. Fixes #3911
• Implemented load params from php files by arrilot. See #3914
• [Yii2] Fixes #3916: Don’t try to start transaction when working with non-transactional DBs by samdark.
• [REST] Removed broken xdebug_remote functionality by Naktibalda. Fixes #3883
• Added graceful termination by Ctrl-C in PHP 7.1 by AdrianSkierniewski. See #3907
• [Db] Disconnect after initializing when using reconnect, fixes #3903. By insightfuls
• [Phalcon] Fixed handling $_SERVER with Phalcon Connector by sergeyklay
• Avoid notice when checking width of terminal on Windows by ashnazg. See #3893
• [Filesystem] dontSeeFileFound searches in path by Naktibalda. Fixes #3877
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] grabValueFrom to work after fillField by wumouse. Fix #3866
• [Db] Oci driver to cleans up views #3881, and result set improvements #3840 by ashnazg.
• [Yii2] Close transaction created by the controller-action on interruption. See #3834. By alex20465
• [Yii2] Fixed using part: init with other modules like WebDriver. See #3876. By margori
• [REST] Implemented dontSeeResponseJsonMatchesXpath method by Naktibalda. Closes #3843
• [REST] Convert array having single element to XML correctly. Fixes #3827 by Naktibalda
• Linter to check exec function to be enabled before using it. By Naktibalda. See #3886
• Fixed #3922: division by zero in steps output on small terminal windows.
• Improved getting terminal width from ENV variable (bash). Fixes #3788 by schmunk42

2.2.7

• Config validation with codecept config:validate command. Use it:

codecept config:validate
codecept config:validate acceptance

This should help you next time you get messed with YAML formatting.

• Gherkin improvements:
  • multiple step definitions per method allowed (Fixes #3670).
  • regex validation for Gherkin steps; throws exception if invalid regex passed. Fixes #3676
  • currency chars supported in placeholders:

  $,€,£ and other signs can be used before or after a number inside Gherkin scenario. This char will be ignored inside a PHP variable, so you receive only number.

When I have 100$ => $num === 100
And I have $100 => $num === 100

• escaped strings can now be passed into placeholders. Fixes #3676.

• Codeception is tested with latest verision of HHVM
• Extensions loader refactored:
  • Extensions can be enabled for suite in suite config.
  • Extensions can be loaded per suite and per environment.
  • Extensions configs can be done inside enabled section (as it is for modules):

extensions:
  enabled:
      Codeception\Extension\Recorder:
          delete_successful: false

• Added dataprovider to Cest format by endo. See updated documentation.
• Params loader refactored. Using vlucas/phpdotenv to parse .env files. Please install it if you don’t have it yet.
• Improved generate:suite command to generate actor file for suite.
• HTML reporter: snapshot and screenshots paths made relative to make them accessible on CI. Fixes #3702
• [WebDriver] added protocol and path config options by sven-carstens-udg. See #3717
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Honour <base href=""> meta tag by Naktibalda. See #3764
• [Yii2] Removed mockAssetManager by githubjeka
• [Yii2] Added procesing for native url formats of Yii2 #3725 by githubjeka
• [Yii2] Fixed unintentional DB connection drop during exception logging, #3696 by ivokund
• [Yii2] Fixed calling _fixtures() method of Cest class. See #3655, fixes #3612 by primipilus
• [Db] Fixed removeInserted for Sqlite by Naktibalda. Fixes #3680
• Allows to get groups from scenario by $scenario->getGroups(). By frantzen. See #3675
• Fixed #3225: incorrect steps shown for multiple canXXX conditional assertion failures. By Mitrichius
• [SOAP] Force string for debugSection output by Noles. Fixes #3690
• Fixed #3562 group files with exact test not working with @example on Windows by Naktibalda.
• [Laravel5] Added vendor_dir option. See #3775. By AdrianSkierniewski
• [Laravel5] Fixed error where custom service container bindings were not available on the first request. See #3728. By janhenkgerritsen
• [Lumen] Fixed error where a non-existing exception class was thrown. See #3729. By janhenkgerritsen
• [Phalcon] Added services part which can be used to grabServiceFromContainer and addServiceToContainer when conflicting module is used. By sergeyklay
• [Phalcon] Refactored. Moved in-memory session adapter to the separated namespace. By sergeyklay
• [Phalcon] Fixed overwriting server parameters on requests. By sergeyklay
• [Asserts] assertCount method added by disc
• Documentation improvements by CJDennis

2.2.6 (October 2016)

• Ability to update config on run with --override (-o) option. Usage Examples:
  • codecept run -o "settings: shuffle: true": enable shuffle
  • codecept run -o "settings: lint: false": disable linting
• [WebDriver] HTML report to include screenshots of failed tests. See #3602
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] HTML report to include HTML of failed tests. See #3602
• [Apc] Module added to interact with the Alternative PHP Cache (APC) using either APCu or APC extension. By sergeyklay
• [Laravel5] Add run_database_seeder configuration option. See #3625 and #3630. By Bouhnosaure
• [Laravel5] Add database_migrations_path configuration option. See #3628. By janhenkgerritsen
• [Laravel5][Lumen] Fixed issue that caused the have and haveMultiple methods not being available when using the ORM part of the modules. See #3587. By janhenkgerritsen
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Fixed clicking on a button inside the link
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Click on the first clickable item when clickBySelector is used
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Anchor is no longer sent to server
• Removed tags from see/dontSee output and friends output
• -- separates options from arguments in codecept run by Naktibalda. Fixes #3614. See #3615
• Fixed terminating run process with Ctrl-C for PHP 7.0. Disabled graceful termination
• [Yii2] fixed Yii2 logging complex data by svoboda2010 Fixes #3452
• [Yii2] cleanup set to true by default (as it was documented but not enabled).
• [Yii2] Close db connections when running haveFixtures by Ni-san. Fixes #3456. See #3586
• [Yii2] Fixed loading fixtures from _fixtures method in testcase by iRipVanWinkle. See #3565
• [MongoDb] Added support for mongofill, an alternative Mongo client in pure PHP. By hlogeon at #3641
• [MongoDb] Fixed data import using mongotype dump type by hlogeon #3637
• Fixed #3392 by normalizing namespace loading classes in DI getterby Mitrichius at #3633
• [Symfony] Fixed #3608 [PHPUnit_Framework_Exception] implode() while printing debug for security roles by Prazmok.
• [Yii1] Fix domain regex #3581 to return correct value by amashigeseiji See #3597
• [WebDriver] Improved tests stability when Selenium server is gone #3534 by eXorus. Fixes #3531
• [WebDriver] Tests are errored when Selenium server can’t be connected. See #3603
• MetaSteps are printed even with disabled xdebug by niclopez. See #3600
• [WebDriver] submit button in submitForm can be located by name or strict locator by imjoehaines. See #3560
• [SOAP][REST] removed module conflict by eXorus.
• Fixed #3571: error handler to call registerDeprecationErrorHandler method and register_shutdown_function on first SuiteEvent only. By positronium. See #3572

2.2.5 (September 2016)

• Support for PhpUnit 5.x.
• [Lumen] Major refactoring of Lumen module. See #3533. By janhenkgerritsen
• [Laravel5] Removed calls to Auth::logout(), Session::flush() and Cache::flush() from after hook. See #3493. By janhenkgerritsen
• [Memcache] Updated Memcache::seeInMemcached to check if the key exists alone or with the desired value. By sergeyklay
• [Memcache] Added Memcache::haveInMemcached. By sergeyklay
• [Memcache] Fixed Memcache::dontSeeInMemcached. By sergeyklay
• [ZF2] Zend Framework 3 Support. Made init_autoloader optional, because ZF3 uses composer for autoloading #3525. By Naktibalda
• [ZF2] Fixed accessing Doctrine Entity Manager when client is not initialized. By chris1312. See #3524
• [Yii2] Allow to load fixtures from _fixtures method of a testcase. See reference. Fixes usage of nested transactions #3520. By kalyabin and davertmik
• [Yii1] Fix private property accessible; allows to change urlManager class to subclass of CUrlManager. See 3287. By amashigeseiji
• Escaped tags in debug output by Naktibalda. See #3507. Fixes #3495
• Fixed #3410: Wrong subSteps rendering in HTML ResultPrinter by niclopez
• [WebDriver] Improved exception message thrown when click(‘name’) does not match any element #3546 by Naktibalda. Fixes #3528
• [SOAP] Removed conflict with REST module. seeResponseCodeIs is deprecated in favor of seeSoapResponseCodeIs by eXorus. See #3512. Fixes #3512
• Fixed #3472: group Files not working with a non-empty data provider by eXorus
• [REST] Disabled resetting server parameters in _before. Fixed REST+Laravel usage: #3263. See #3539. By janhenkgerritsen
• [REST] Improved output of failed JsonType assertions #3480. By Naktibalda. Fixes #2858
• [REST] Requests are added to browser history #3446. Fixes regression #3197. By Naktibalda
• [REST] application/json header check made case insensitive. Fixes #3516. By Naktibalda
• Fix bug in Coverage Filter related to relative filepaths #3518. By sbacic
• [Db] PostgreSQL: fixed a problem when sequences are not a standard format (ie. table_id_seq). See #3506. By alexjeen
• [Symfony] Persist doctrine.dbal.backend_connection if Doctrine2 module is used #3500. Fixes #3479. By Naktibalda
• [Doctrine2] Using Doctrine\ORM\EntityManagerInterface as valid em instance #3467. Fixes #3459. By akbwm
• [MongoDb] Fixes mongorestore command syntax and adds –quiet option to config
• [Facebook] Replaced facebook/php-sdk-v4 library with facebook/graph-sdk.
• Fixed #3433 detection of relative path when codeception.yml is not in project root. See #3434. By loren-osborn
• Handle deprecation messages according to error_level setting #3460. Fixes #3424. By Naktibalda.

2.2.4 (August 2016)

• Improved using complex params, nested params can be set using dot (.). See #3339
• [Yii2] Mailer mock is now configured with options that make sense for it. Fixes #3382
• [Yii2] Fixed creating @webroot directory on running functional tests. See #3387
• [Yii2] Fixed regression in Yii 2 connector not allowing to work with output of error pages in functional tests. Fixes #3332
• [Mongo] support of standard mongodump/mongorestore tools to populate mongo db database. Thanks GSokol. Fixes #3427
• [REST] seeResponseIsJson fails when response is empty. See #3401, closes #3400
• [AMQP] Added purgeQueue and purgeAllQueues actions. By niclopez
• [DataFactory] haveMultiple fixed; corrected the order of arguments in FactoryMuffin->seed. See #3413 by buffcode
• [SOAP] Improved error reporting by eXorus See #3426 #3422
• [SOAP] Added SOAPAction config param to unset SOAPAction header in SOAP >= 1.2. See #3396
• [REST] fixed digest authentication. See #3416
• [Laravel5] Fixed an issue with error handling for Laravel 5.3. See #3420. By bonsi.
• [Laravel5] Fixed an issue with uploaded files. See #3417. By torkiljohnsen.
• [ZF2] Support for zend-mvc 3.0
• [Db] Error is thrown if SQLite memory is used. #3319
• [Frameworks] REQUEST_TIME server variable to be set on request. By gimler. Fixes #3374

2.2.3 (July 2016)

• [Yii2] Improvements:
  • Added init part to initialize Yii app for unit and acceptance testing.
  • added entryScript and entryUrl config values for acceptance testing.
  • Fixtures support: haveFixtures, grabFixtures methods.
  • Yii logs to be printed in debug mode.
  • added amOnRoute method.
  • added amloggedInAs method.
  • added grabComponent method.
  • added seeEmailIsSent, grabLastSentEmail, etc and email part.
  • assetManager disabled for unit/functional tests.
• Fixed @example to @group defined in group files. By eXorus. Fixes #3278
• Added ReqiuiresPackage interface to set external dependencies for modules.
• Fixed timing values in output. Closes #3331
• Fixed merging module configs. Closes #3292
• [Recorder Extension] Fixes saving of files on windows and with using examples.
• [DataFactory] Fixed loading factories twice by samusenkoiv. See #3314
• [Laravel5] Added run_database_migrations configuration option. By janhenkgerritsen.
• [Laravel5] Added callArtisan method. By janhenkgerritsen.
• [Laravel5] Added disableModelEvents() method and disable_model_events configuration option. Fixes #2897.
• [REST] Allow objects in files array #3298
• [ZF2] Added addServiceToContainer method
• [ZendExpressive] allow instances of UploadedFile in files array
• [ZF2] Added addServiceToContainer method
• Don’t fail test validation when exec function is disabled by Naktialda

2.2.2

• Parameters can be applied to global codeception.yml config. See #3255 Thanks to LeRondPoint
• Fixed loading of parameters from .env.* files. See #3224. By smotesko
• Better failure diff messages by k0pernikus
• UTF-8 improvements (replaced with custom ucfirst, strtoupper => mb_strtoupper) by Naktibalda. See #3211
• Print execution time of non-successful tests by Naktibalda. Fixes #3274
• [WebDriver][PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Fixed created files on failure. Fixes #3207
• [Frameworks][PhpBrowser] Adjacent forms submit improvements by dizzy7. Fixes #2331
• [WebDriver] Fixed adjacent selectOption with similar options by eXorus. Fixes #3246
• [DataFactory] fixed loading factories from relative paths. Fixes #3208
• Test\Gherkin Added JUnit reporter #3273
• Test\Gherkin Added support for multiple languages by dizzy7. See #3203
• Test\Unit Dependencies can pass and receive values the same way as it is done in PHPUnit. Fixes #3213
• [Symfony] Fixed failing tests when the profiler is disabled by dizzy7. See #3223
• [REST] Added Codecepion\Util\HttpCode util class with HTTP code constants. See class reference
• [REST] Support simple key-value format for file uploads. See #3244
• Bugfix with duplicate instances in the modules container #3219 by dizzy7
• [REST] Added deleteHeader method by Naktibalda. Fixes #3161
• [Yii1] init part added to avoid conflicts with WebDriver
• generate:snippets can accept second parameter to generate snippets from a specific file or folder.
• [Db] Added grabNumRecords method by tocsick. See #3175
• Fixed group events fire twice #3112. By jstaudenmaier
• [ZF2] Added services part which can be used to grabServiceFromContainer when conflicting module is used by Naktibalda.
• Improved Examples to be Traversable; Fixed console output for complex data structures.
• [Laravel5] Added haveBinding, haveSingleton, haveContextualBinding and haveInstance methods. By janhenkgerritsen. See #2904.
• • changes from 2.1.11

2.2.1

• PHPUnit 5.4 and PHPUnit/php-code-coverage 4.0 compatibility.

2.2.0

• Gherkin format support. Announcement
• Core Test Format Refactorings Codeception becomes true multiformat testing platform. Format requires a Loader and class extending Test class, implementing TestInterface.
  • Breaking Codeception\TestCase replaced with Codeception\TestInterface in code and in module signatures.
  • Breaking Cept/Cest classes are no longer extending PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase, so they don’t have expectException, getMock, etc.
  • Reduced stack trace for scenario-driven test formats. Codeception tests implement PHPUnit_Framework_Test instead of extending heavy PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase class.
• Breaking Conflicts API implemented Frameworks + PhpBrowser + WebDriver can’t be used together unless only non-conflicting part is used. Announcement
• Examples as an alternative to Data Providers. Announcement
• Params loading from yml, env files or environment. Announcement
• Test dependencies with @depends annotation. Announcement
• Custom Commands inject your own commands as as simple as extension. Announcement
• codecept dry-run command added to show scenario steps without executing them.
• Breaking [Dbh] module removed
• Breaking [Laravel4] module removed. See #2866
• Breaking [Laravel5] Minimum supported Laravel version is 5.1. See [#3243](https://github.com/Codeception/Codeception/issues/3243)
• Breaking [Laravel5] Removed createModel method, use have method instead. See #2866
• Breaking [Laravel5] Removed makeModel method. See #2866
• Breaking [Laravel5] Renamed haveModel method to have. See #2866
• Breaking [Symfony] public property container removed
• Breaking [Asserts] removed deprecated assertLessThen and assertGreaterThen
• Breaking mocks created with Codeception\Util\Stub are not verified in Cests. See #3005
• Breaking [REST] grabAttributeFrom renamed to grabAttributeFromXmlElement to avoid conflicts
• [WebDriver] allows getting current browser and capabilities in test. Announcement
• [AngularJS] module added. Extends WebDriver module for AngularJS testing. Announcement
• [DataFactory] module added. Performs data generation using FactoryMuffin library Announcement
• [Redis] Module rewritten using Predis library as driver by marcverney
• [Laravel5] Added a haveMultiple method to create more than one model per call. See #2866
• [Laravel5] [Lumen] The haveRecord, seeRecord, dontSeeRecord and grabRecord methods now also accept Eloquent model class names instead of only database table names. See #2866
• [Symfony] module Symfony2 renamed to Symfony
• [Phalcon] Merged Phalcon1 and Phalcon2 modules into one Phalcon due the fact that Phalcon Framework v1.3.x no longer supported at all
• [Asserts] More assert* methods from PHPUnit added
• [Asserts] Added expectException method
• [WebDriver][Frameworks][PhpBrowser] selectOption can receive option as strict locator to exactly match option by text or by value. Use ['value' => 'myvalue'] or ['text' => 'optiontext'] to select a proper option. By gdscei and davertmik See #3003
• Added config option to disable modules using modules: disabled:.
• [Sequence] Changed the prefix value. Generated sequences to include id inside a prefix: sq('user1') => 'user1_876asd8as87a'. Added prefix` config option.
• Deprecation errors won’t fail tests but will be printed.
• Official Docker image introduced by schmunk42

  2.1.11

• [Yii1] Improved Yii connector. AR metadata is cleaned up between requests. regenerateId of session is disabled.
• [REST][InnerBrowser] redirect is not triggered when Location header is set but response code is not 3xx. By Naktibalda. Fixes #3171.
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] checkboxes can be located by label by dizzy7. See #3237
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] field can be matched by its trimmed label value. See #3209. By dizzy7
• [WebDriver] fixed URL matching in WebDriver::seeLink
• [WebDriver][InnerBrowser] Improved error messages of seeLink and dontSeeLink

2.1.10

• PHPUnit version locked to <5.4
• [Db] Added missing support for LIKE condition to SqlSrv driver

2.1.9

• PHPUnit 5.4 compatibility for creating mocks using Codeception\Util\Stub by davertmik. See #3093 and #3080
• Updated dependencies to support Symfony 3.1
• [Laravel5] Fixed issue where non-existing services were called in _before and _after methods. See #3028.
• Fix self-update command to update only to stable versions by MAXakaWIZARD
• Added settings: backup_global to config, to disable backup_global option of PHPUnit by mkeasling. See #3045. Fixes #3044
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] see matches UTF-8 text case-insensitively by Naktibalda. Fixes #3114
• Fixed page object generation with namespaces by eugene-manuilov and Naktibalda. See #3126 Fixes #3012
• --steps will not disable code coverage. By Naktibalda. Fixes #2620
• Suppress console coverage report with --quiet by EspadaV8. See #2370
• Improved multibyte output in console by kt81. See #3130
• [Lumen] Fixed: initializeLumen() method has been called twice on start by kt81. See #3124 #2607
• [Db] Allow INT Parameter SQL Binding by davidcochrum . Fixes #3118
• [Db] Support LIKE conditions in assertions.
• [Db] Improved regex for parsing comments by dima-stefantsov. See #3138
• [Dbh] Fix seeInDatabase and dontSeeInDatabase with empty criteria. Closes #3116
• [Symfony] Improve fail messages on seeInCurrentRoute and seeCurrentRouteIs
• [Symfony] Improve route comparison on seeInCurrentRoute and seeCurrentRouteIs
• [WebDriver] multi session testing with friends improved by eXorus. Webdriver sessions are finished correctly; leave() method added to Friend class. See #3068
• [PhpBrowser] added handler and middleware config options to customize Guzzle handlers and middleware
• Added full support of phpunit-bridge features.
• [Laravel] Fixed issue where non-existing services were called in _before and _after methods. See #3028.
• [WebDriver] fixed using saveSessionSnapshot with codecoverage. Closes #2923
• [ZF2] create new instance of Application for each request

2.1.8

• Util\Locator added methods to create locators to match element at their position: elementAt, firstElement, lastElement
• [Symfony] Refactor to unify service retrieval, avoid memleaks and reduce memory footprint. Closes #2938 and #2954.
• [Symfony] New optoin rebootable_client that reboots client’s kernel before each request.
• [WebDriver] fixed seeInField for textarea with whitespaces before and after string. Closes #2921
• [Symfony] Deprecated grabServiceFromContainer use grabService instead. For consistency with other frameworks.
• [Asserts] More assert* methods from PHPUnit added
• [Asserts] Added expectException method
• codecept self-update works with proxy by gr1ev0us
• [Phalcon1 add params support for method amOnRoute by MelnykDmitro

2.1.7

• PHPUnit 5.x support
• Global Bootstrap, Suite Bootstrap, Module Initialization happens before test loading. Fixes issues of autoloading TestCase classes introduced in 2.1.5, see #2872
• Added option to skip PHP files validation in codeception.yml - settings: lint: false
• [Facebook] Updated to facebook/php-sdk-v4 version 5 by orhan-swe and tigerseo #2828 #2415
• [WebDriver] Added scrollTo action by javigomez and davertmik #2844
• Fix encoding problems in PHP prior to 5.6 by pejaycz. See #2831
• [Queue] Fixed clearQueue for AmazonSQS by mikitu #2805
• [Db] Fixed loading files in Sqlite mcustiel See #2812
• [PhpBrowser] amHttpAuthenticated allows null, null as parameters to unset authentication. #2896
• Util\Locator added contains method to easily locate any element containing a text.
• [Laravel5] Added guard parameters to seeAuthentication and dontSeeAuthentication methods. By janhenkgerritsen. See #2876
• [Laravel5] Added functionality to disable/enable Laravel’s exception handling. By janhenkgerritsen. See #2763
• [Laravel5] Authentication now persists between requests when calling amLoggedAs with an instance of Authenticable. See #2795
• [REST] Fixed dontSeeXmlResponseMatchesXpath method #2825 by mangust404
• [ZF2] Fixed POST parameters #2814 by Naktibalda
• [ZF1] Call Zend_Registry::_unsetInstance in _after #2863 by Naktibalda

2.1.6

• Starting from 2.1.6 you can download PHP 5.4 compatible phar build at http://codeception.com/php54/codecept.phar by Naktibalda. See installation guide.
• [WebDriver] Fixed uploading files with PhantomJS #1823 by DavertMik and Naktibalda. Please specify your browser name as phantom in WebDriver config in order to use PhantomJS-specific hooks.
• Fixed parsing PHP files with spaces in name on PHP<7 by acuthbert. Fixes #2647
• [WebDriver] Fixed proxy error when using with Chrome #2651 by vaikla
• [Laravel5] Allow Laravel5 application URL to be set through config. By gmhenderson. See #2676
• [Laravel5] Mocked events should also return an array. Fix by devinfd
• Fixed using codecoverage with environments #2634
• Various HHVM improvements by Naktibalda, for instance, Asserts module issues has been fixed.
• [REST] Fixes #2775 seeResponseJsonMatchesXpath when JSON contains ampersand. By Naktibalda.
• [Filesystem] Added seeNumberNewLines method to check the number of new lines in opened file. By sergeyklay
• [Symfony2] Added seeCurrentRouteMatches action by laszlo-karpati See #2665
• [Sequence] Added sqs function to generate unique sequences per suite. #2766 by johnatannvmd
• [FTP] Fixed various bugs by k-serenade. See #2755
• [Frameworks][PhpBrowser] Fixed #2733: seeOptionIsSelected sees first option as selected if none is selected by Naktibalda
• [Symfony2] Removed ‘localhost’ from getInternalDomains by Naktibalda. Fixed #2717
• Bugfix for using groups by directory on Windows by tortuetorche See #2550 and #2551
• [REST] Fixed failed message for seeHttpHeader and dontSeeHttpHeader from null to expected value #2697 by zondor
• [REST] Added methods to control redirect: stopFollowingRedirects and startFollowingRedirects by brutuscat
• [Recorder Extension] Added animate_slides config to disable left-right sliding animation between screenshots by vml-rmott

2.1.5

• PHP7 support
• Symfony3 support
• [ZendExpressive] module added by Naktibalda
• [Frameworks] Internal Domains: Framework modules now throw an ExternalUrlException when a test tries to open a URL that is not handled by the framework, i.e. an external URL. See #2396
• Syntax check for tests. If PHP7 is used, ParseException handles syntax error, otherwise linting happens with php -l. davertmik
• Fixed Cest generation to not include “use” statements if no namespaces set
• [REST] Modified JsonArray::sequentialArrayIntersect to return complete matches only by Naktibalda. Fixes #2635
• [REST] Fixes validation of several types with filters. See #2581 By davertmik
• [REST] JsonType improved URL filter to use filter_var($value, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL)
• [REST] JsonType to support collections: all items in an array will be validates against JsonType. By davertmik
• [REST] Various fixes to JsonType: #2555 #2548 #2542
• [REST] Hides binary request data in debug by codemedic. Fixed #1884, See #2552
• [WebDriver] Allow appendField to work with content editable div by nsanden #2588
• [WebDriver] Allows adding ssl proxy settings by mjntan35.
• [Symfony2] Config option cache_router added (disabled by default) by raistlin.
• [Doctrine] Fixed #2060: Too many connections error by dranzd
• [Symfony2] services part added to allow access Symfony DIC while wokring with WebDriver or PhpBrowser by laszlo-karpati See #2629
• [WebDriver][PhpBrowser] Unified setCookie “expires” param name by davertmik. See #2582
• [Memcache] add adaptive close call on _after by pfz. See #2572
• [Symfony2] Move kernel booting and container set up into _initialize() method by Franua #2491
• [WebDriver] Fixed seeInField for textareas by nsanden
• [Yii2][REST] Fixed using Yii2 as dependency for REST by Naktibalda. See #2562
• [Laravel5] Removed enableMiddleware and enableEvents methods. See #2602. By janhenkgerritsen
• [Laravel] Refactored modules. See #2602. By janhenkgerritsen
• [Laravel5] Fix bug for seeCurrentRouteIs when routes don’t match. See #2593. By maddhatter
• [PhpBrowser] Set curl options for Guzzle6 correctly. See #2533. By Naktibalda
• Fixed usage of GroupObject by unit tests. GroupObjects can skip tests by davetmik. See #2617

2.1.4

• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Added _getResponseContent hidden method. By Naktibalda
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Added moveBack method. By Naktibalda
• [WebDriver][PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Added seeInSource, dontSeeInSource methods to check raw HTML instead of stripped text in see/dontSee. By zbateson in #2465
• [WebDriver] print Selenium WebDriver logs on failure or manually with debugWebDriverLogs in debug mode. Config option debug_log_entries added. See #2471 By MasonM and DavertMik.
• [ZF2] grabs service from container without reinitializing it. Fixes #2519 where Doctrine2 gets different instances of the entity manager everytime grabServiceFromContainer is called. By dranzd
• [REST] fixed usage of JsonArray and json_last_error_msg function on PHP 5.4. See #2535. By Naktibalda
• [REST] seeResponseIsJsonType can now validate emails with string:email definition. By DavertMik
• [REST] seeResponseIsJsonType: string|null as well as null|string can be used to match null type. #2522 #2500 By vslovik
• [REST] REST methods can be used to inspect result of the last request made by PhpBrowser or framework module. see #2507. By Naktibalda
• [Silex] Doctrine provider added. Doctrine2 module can be connected to Silex app with depends: Silex in config. By arduanov #2503
• [Laravel5] Removed expectEvents and added seeEventTriggered and dontSeeEventTriggered. By janhenkgerritsen
• [Laravel5] Fixed fatal error in seeCurrentRouteIs and seeCurrentActionIs methods. See #2517. By janhenkgerritsen
• [Laravel5] Improved the error messages for several methods. See #2476. By janhenkgerritsen
• [Laravel5] Improved form error methods. See #2432. By janhenkgerritsen
• [Laravel5] Added wrapper methods for Laravel 5 model factories. See #2442. By janhenkgerritsen
• [Phalcon] Added amOnRoute and seeCurrentRouteIs methods by sergeyklay
• [Phalcon] Added seeSessionHasValues by sergeyklay
• [Phalcon] Added getApplication() method by sergeyklay
• [Symfony2] Sets xdebug.max_nesting_level to 200 only if it is lower. Fixes error hiding #2462 by mhightower
• [Db] Save the search path when importing Postgres dumps #2441 by EspadaV8
• [Yii2] Fixed problems with transaction rollbacks when using the cleanup flag. See #2488. By ivokund
• [Yii2] Clean up previously uploaded files between tests by tibee
• Actor classes generation improved by codemedic #2453
• Added support for nested helper by luka-zitnik #2494
• Make generate:suite respect bootstrap setting in #2512. By dmitrivereshchagin

2.1.3

• [REST] Added matching data types by with new methods seeResponseMatchesJsonType and dontSeeResponseMatchesJsonType. See #2391
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] added _request and _loadPage hidden API methods for performing arbitrary requests.
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Fixed seeInField, dontSeeInField for disabled fields #2378. See #2414.
• Environment files can now be located in subfolders of tests/_env by Zifius
• [Symfony2] Fixed issue when accessing profiler when no request has been performed #652.
• [Symfony2] Added amOnRoute and seeCurrentRouteIs methods by raistlin
• [ZF2] Added amOnRoute and seeCurrentRouteIs methods module, by Naktibalda
• Fixed issue with trailing slashes in seeCurrentUrlEquals and dontSeeCurrentUrlEquals methods #2324. By janhenkgerritsen
• Warning is displayed once using unconfigured environment.
• Fixed loading environment configurations for Cept files by splinter89
• Fixed bootstrap with namespaces to inject namespaced actor classes properly.
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] added hidden _request() method to send requests to backend from Helper classes.
• [Laravel5] Added disableEvents(), enableEvents() and expectEvents() methods. By janhenkgerritsen
• [Laravel5] Added dontSeeFormErrors() method. By janhenkgerritsen
• [Db] Deleted Oracle driver (it existed by mistake, the real driver is Oci). By Naktibalda
• [Db] Implemented getPrimaryKey method for Sqlite, Mysql, Postgresql, Oracle and MsSql. By Naktibalda
• [Db] Implemented support for composite primary keys and tables without primary keys. By Naktibalda
• Fixed the scalarizeArray to be aware of NULL fields #2264. By fbidu
• [Soap] Fixed SOAP module #2296. By relaxart
• Fixed a bug where blank lines in a groups file would run every test in the project #2297. By imjoehaines
• [WebDriver] seeNumberOfElements should only count visible elements #2303. By sascha-egerer
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Verbose output for all HTTP requests. By Naktibalda
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Throw Codeception\Exception\ExternalUrlException when framework module tries to open an external URL #2328. By Naktibalda
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Added switchToIframe method. By Naktibalda
• [Dbh] module deprecated

2.1.2

• Updated to PHPUnit 4.8
• Enhancement: Wildcard includes enabled when testing multiple applications. See #2016 By nzod
• [Symfony2] fixed Doctrine2 integration: Doctrine transactions will start before each test and rollback afterwards. 2015-08-08
• [Doctrine2] establishing connection and starting transaction is moved to _before. 2015-08-08
• [PhpBrowser] Removed disabled and file fields from form values. By Naktibalda 2015-08-08
• [ZF2] Added grabServiceFromContainer function. By InVeX 2015-08-08
• [PhpBrowser][Guzzle6] Disabled strict mode of CookieJar #2234 By Naktibalda 2015-08-04
• [Laravel5] Added disableMiddleware() and enableMiddleware() methods. By janhenkgerritsen 2015-08-07
• Enhancement: If a specific *ActorActions trait does not exist in tests/_support/_generated directory, it will be created automatically before run.
• Enhancement: do not execute all included suites if you run one specific suite 2015-08-08
• Extension\Recorder navigate over slides with left and right arrow keys, do not create screenshots for comment steps.
• Extension\Recorder generates index html for all saved records.
• Extension\Recorder fixed for creating directories twice. Fixed #2216
• Extension\Logger fixed #2216
• Fixed injection of Helpers into Cest and Test files. See #2222
• Stub::makeEmpty on interfaces works again by Naktibalda
• Command generate:scenarios fixed for Cest files by mkudenko See #1962
• [Db] Quoted table name in Db::select, removed identical methods from child classes by Naktibalda. See #2231
• [WebDriver] added support for running tests on a remote server behind a proxy with http_proxy and http_proxy_port config options by jdq22 2015-07-29
• [Laravel] Fixed issue with error handling for haveRecord() method in Laravel modules #2217 by janhenkgerritsen 2015-07-28
• Fixed displayed XML/HTML report path #2187 by Naktibalda 2015-07-27
• [WebDriver] Fixed waitForElementChange fatal error by stipsan
• [Db] Enhanced dollar quoting ($$) processing in PostgreSQL driver by YasserHassan 2015-07-20
• [REST] Created tests for file-upload with REST module. By Naktibalda 2015-08-08
• [Lumen] Fixed issue where wrong request object was passed to the Lumen application by janhenkgerritsen 2015-07-18

2.1.1

• [WebDriver] Upgraded to facebook/webdriver 1.0 2015-07-11 WebDriver classes were moved to Facebook\WebDriver namespace. Please take that into account when using WebDriver API directly. Till 2.2 Codeception will keep non-namespaced aliases of WebDriver classes.
• Module Reference now contains documentation for hidden API methods which should be used in Helper classes
• Skipped and Incomplete tests won’t fire test.before and test.after events. For instance, WebDriver browser won’t be started and Db cleanups won’t be executed on incomplete or skipped tests.
• Annotations skip and incomplete enabled in Cest files #2131
• [WebDriver][PhpBrowser][Frameworks] _findElements($locator) method added to use in Helper classes 2015-07-11 Now you can use $this->getModule('WebDriver')->findElements('.user'); in Helpers to match all elements with user class using WebDriver module
• [PhpBrowser] Fixed amOnUrl method to open absolute URLs.
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Fix for fillField using values that contain ampersands by GawainLynch and zbateson Issue #2132
• [WebDriver][PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Fixed missing HTTPS when trying to access protected pages #2141

2.1.0

• Recorder extension added. Shows acceptance test progress with a recorded slideshow.
• Updated to Guzzle 6. Codeception can now work both with Guzzle v5 and Guzzle v6. PhpBrowser chooses right connector depending on Guzzle version installed. By davertmik and enumag
• Annotations in Cept files. Instead of calling $scenario->skip(), $scenario->group('firefox'), etc, it is recommended to set scenario metadata with annotations // **[skip](https://github.com/skip)**, // **[group](https://github.com/group)** firefox. Annotations can be parsed from line or block comments. $scenario->skip() and $scenario->incomplete() are still valid and can be executed inside conditional statements:

  if (!extension_loaded('xdebug')) $scenario->skip('Xdebug required')
  

• PSR-4: all support classes moved to tests/_support by default. Actors, Helpers, PageObjects, StepObjects, GroupObjects to follow PSR-4 naming style. Autoloader implemented by splinter89.
• Dependency Injection: support classes can be injected into tests. Support classes can be injected into each other too. This happens by implementing method _inject and explicitly specifying class names as parameters. Implemented by splinter89.
• Actor classes can be extended, their generated parts were moved to special traits in _generated namespace. Each *Tester class can be updated with custom methods.
• Module config simplified: Modules can be configured in enabled section of suite config.
• Conflicts: module can define conflicts with each other by implementing _conflicts method
• Dependencies: module can explicitly define dependencies and expect their injection by implementing _inject and _depends methods and relying on dependency injection container.
• Current modules, environment, and test name can be received in scenario. Example: $scenario->current('env') returns current environment name. Fixes #1251
• Environment Matrix: environments can be merged. Environment configs can be created in tests/_envs, environment generator added. Implemented by By sjableka. See #1747
• Custom Printers: XML, JSON, TAP, Report printers can be redefined in configuration. See #1425
• [Db] Added reconnect option for long running tests, which will connect to database before the test and disconnect after. By Naktibalda
• Module parts. Actions of modules can be loaded partially in order to disable actions which are not used in current tests. For instance, disable web actions of framework modules in unit testsing.
• Kohana, Symfony1, Doctrine1 modules considered deprecated and moved to standalone packages.
• shuffle added to settings. Randomizes order of running tests. See #1504
• Console output improved: scenario stack traces contain files and lines of fail.
• [Doctrine2][Symfony2] symfony_em_service config option moved from Doctrine2 to Symfony2 module and renamed to em_service 2015-06-03
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Fixed cloning form nodes Codeception\Lib\InnerBrowser::getFormFromCrawler(): ID XXX already defined 2015-05-13
• [WebDriver] session snapshot implemented, allows to store cookies and load them, i.e., to keep user session between testss.
• [WebDriver][PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Malformed XPath locators wil throw an exception #1441
• MODULE_INIT event is fired before initializing modules #1370
• Graceful tests termination using pcntl_signal. See #1286
• Group classes renamed to GroupObjects; Base GroupObject class renamed to Codeception\GroupObject
• Official extensions moved to ext dir; Base Extension class renamed to Codeception\Extension
• Duplicate environment options won’t cause Codeception to run environment tests twice
• [Phalcon1] haveServiceInDi method implemented by sergeyklay

• [Db] seeNumRecords method added by sergeyklay#### 2.0.15

• [Phalcon1] Fixed getting has more than one field by sergeyklay #2010.
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Compute relative URIs against the effective request URI when there is a redirect. #2058 #2057
• [PhpBrowser] Fixed Guzzle Connector headers by valeriyaslovikovskaya #2028
• [Symfony2] kernel is created for every test by quaninte #2020
• [WebDriver] Added WebDriver init settings connection_timeout and request_timeout by n8whnp #2065
• [MongoDb] added ability to change the database by clarkeash #2015
• [Doctrine2] Fixed issues after first request is made #2025 AlexStansfield
• [REST] Improved JsonArray to compare repeated values correctly by Naktibalda #2070
• [MongoDb] Remove not necessary config fields user and password by nicklasos
• Stub::construct can be used to set private/protected properties by Naktibalda #2082
• Fixed before and after hooks in Cest. _before method was executed on each call of method specified in before annotation 2015-06-15
• [Laravel5] Fix for domains in route() helper. See #2000. 2015-06-04
• [REST] Fixed sending JsonSerializable object on POST by Naktibalda and andersonamuller. See #1988 #1994
• [MongoDb] escaped filename shell argument for loading MongoDB by christoph-hautzinger. #1998 2015-06-03
• [Lumen] Module added by janhenkgerritsen

2.0.14

• Improved output 2015-05-22
  • data providers print simplified
  • output respects console size with tput and tries to fit area
  • non-interactive environments for tput are ignored
• [Frameworks][PhpBrowser][Symfony2] Fields are passed as PHP-array on form submission the same way as Symfony\Component\DomCrawler\Form->getPhpValues() does. Fixes fails of Symfony form tests 2015-05-22
• [Laravel4] Fixed bug with filters. See #1810. 2015-05-21
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Fixed working associative array form fields (like FooBar[bar]). Fixes regression #1923 by davertmik and zbateson.
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Fixed cloning form nodes Codeception\Lib\InnerBrowser::getFormFromCrawler(): ID XXX already defined 2015-05-13
• [Laravel4] [Laravel5] Improved error message for amOnRoute and amOnAction methods if route or action does not exist 2015-05-04
• [Laravel4] Fixed issue with session configuration 2015-05-01
• [Laravel4] Partial rewrite of module 2015-05-01
  • Added getApplication() method
  • Added seeFormHasErrors(), seeFormErrorMessages(array $bindings) and seeFormErrorMessage($key, $errorMessage) methods
  • Deprecated seeSessionHasErrors() and seeSessionErrorMessage(array $bindings) methods.
• fixed stderr output messages in PHPStorm console 2015-04-26
• Allow following symlinks when searching for tests by nechutny
• Fixed g:scenarios --single-file missing linebreaks between scenarios by Zifius Parially fixes #1866
• [Frameworks][PhpBrowser] Fixed errors like [ErrorException] Array to string conversion when using strict locators. Fix by neochief #1881
• [Frameworks][PhpBrowser] Fix for URLs with query parameters not properly constructed for GET form submissions by zbateson Fixes #1891
• [Facebook] Updated Facebook SDK to 4.0 by enginvardar. See #1896.
• [DB] Quote table name in Db::getPrimaryKeyColumn and Db::deleteQueryMethods by Naktibalda. See #1912
• [Silex] Can be used for API functional testing. Improvement by arduanov See #1945
• [Doctrine2] Added new config option symfony_em_service to specify service name for Doctrine entity manager in Symfony DIC by danieltuwien #1915
• [Db] Reversed order of removing records with foreign keys created by haveInDatabase. Fixes #1942 by satahippy
• [Db] Quote names in PostgreSQL queries. Fix #1916 by satahippy
• [ZF1] Various improvements by Naktibalda See #1924
• [ZF2][ZF2] Improved passing request headers by Naktibalda
• [Phalcon1] Improved dependency injector container check by sergeyklay #1967
• [Yii2] Enabled logging by TriAnMan #1539
• Attribute feature added to xml reports in Codeception\TestCase\Test test report by tankist. See #1964
• Fixed #1779 by Naktibalda
• …special thanks to Naktibalda for creating demo ZF1 and ZF2 applications with api tests examples.

2.0.13

• Updated to PHPUnit 4.6
• [Db] fixed regression introduced in 2.0.11. haveInDatabase works in PostgreSQL on tables with ‘id’ as primary key. Fix by akireikin #1846 #1761
• added --no-rebuild option to disable automatic actor classes rebuilds 2015-04-24
• suppressed warnings on failed actor classes auto-rebuilds
• enable group listener for grouping with annotation by litpuvn Fixes #1830
• unix terminals output improved by calculating screen size. Done by DexterHD See #1858
• [Yii2] Remove line to activate request parsers by m8rge #1843
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Various fillField/submitForm improvements by zbateson See #1840. Fixes #1828, #1689
• Allow following symlinks when searching for tests by nechutny #1862

2.0.12

• [Laravel5] Fix for undefined method Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request::route() by janhenkgerritsen
• [Yii2] Fix https support and verbose output added by TriAnMan See #1770
• [Yii2] haveRecord to insert insert unsafe attributes by nkovacs. Fixes #1775
• [Asserts] assertSame and assertNotSame added by hidechae 2015-04-03
• [Laravel5] Add packages option for application packages by jonathantorres #1782
• [PhpBrowser][WebDriver][Frameworks] seeInFormFields method added for checking multiple form field values. See #1795 2015-04-03
• [ZF2] Fixed setting Content-Type header by Gorp See #1796 2015-04-03
• [Yii2] Pass body request into yii2 request, allowing to send Xml payload by m8rge. See #1806
• Fixed conditional assertions firing TEST_AFTER event by zbateson. Issues #1647 #1354 and #1111 2015-04-03
• Fixing mocking Laravel models by removing __mocked property in classes created with Stub by EVODelavega See #1785 2015-04-03
• [WebDriver] submitForm allows array parameter values by zbateson 2015-04-03
• [SOAP] Added framework_collect_buffer option to disable buffering output by Noles 2015-04-03
• [Laravel4] added to run artisan commands by bgetsug 2015-04-03
• [AMQP] add a routing key to a push to exchange by jistok 2015-04-03
• Interactive console updated to work with namespaces by jistok 2015-04-03
• [PhpBrowser] added deleteHeader method by zbateson 2015-04-03
• Disabling loading of bootstrap files by setting bootstrap: false in globall settings or inside suite config. Fixes #1813 2015-04-03

2.0.11

• Updated to PHPUnit 4.5 2015-02-23
• [Laravel5] module added by janhenkgerritsen 2015-02-23
• Fixed problem with extensions being always loaded with default options by sjableka. Fixes #1716 2015-02-23
• [Db] Cleanup now works for tables with primary is not named ‘id’. Fix by KennethVeipert See #1727 2015-02-23
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] submitForm improvements by zbateson: 2015-02-23

Removed submitForm’s reliance on using parse_str and parse_url to generate params (which caused unexpected side-effects like failing for values with ampersands).

Modified the css selector for input elements so disabled input elements don’t get sent default values.

Modifications to ensure multiple values get sent correctly.

• [Laravel4] middleware is loaded on requests. Fixed #1680 by jotweh 2015-02-23
• [Dbh] Begin transaction only unless transaction is already in progress by thecatontheflat 2015-02-23
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Fix quiet crash when crawler is null by aivus. See #1714 2015-02-23
• [Yii2] Fixed usage of PUT method by miroslav-chandler 2015-02-23

2.1.0

• [WebDriver] Saving and restoring session snapshots implemented 2015-03-16

2.0.10

• Console Improvement: better formatting of test progress. Improved displaying of debug messages and PHP Fatal Errors. Codeception now uses features of interactive shell to print testing progress. In case of non-interactive shell (when running from CI like Jenkins) this feature is gracefully degraded to standard mode. You can turn off interactive printing manually by providing --no-interaction option or simply -n
• ExceptionWrapper messages unpacked into normal and verbose exceptions.
• HTML reports now allow to filter tests by status. Thanks to raistlin
• Added ‘_failed’ hook for Cest tests. Fixes #1660 2015-02-02
• [REST] fixed setting Host header. Issue #1650 2015-02-02
• [Laravel4] Disconnecting from database after each test to prevent Too many connections exception #1665 by mnabialek 2015-02-02
• [Symfony2] Fixed kernel reuse in #1656 by hacfi 2015-02-01
• [REST] request params are now correctly saved to $this->params property. Fixes #1682 by gmhenderson 2015-02-01
• Interactive shell updated: deprecated Symfony helpers replaced, printed output cleaned 2015-01-28
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Fixed matchOption to return the option value in case there is no value attribute by synchrone. See #1663 2015-01-26
• Fixed remote context options on CodeCoverage by synchrone. See #1664 2015-01-26
• [MongoDb] seeNumElementsInCollection method added by sahanh
• [MongoDb] Added new methods: grabCollectionCount, seeElementIsArray, seeElementIsObject by antoniofrignani
• [WebDriver] Allow selectOption() to select options not inside forms by n8whnp See #1638
• [FTP] Added support for sftp connections with an RSA SSH key by mattvot.
• [PhpBrowser][WebDriver] allows to handle domain and path for cookies 2015-01-24
• [CLI] Allow CLI module to handle nonzero response codes without failing by DevShep
• [Yii2] Fix the bug with session_id(). See #1606 by TriAnMan
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Fix double slashes in certain forms submitted by submitForm by Revisor. See #1625
• [Facebook] grabFacebookTestUserId method added by ipalaus
• Always eval error level settings passed from config file.

2.0.9

• Fixed Symfony 2.6 compatibility in Yaml::parse by **antonioribeiro**
• Specific tests can be executed without adding .php extension by antonioribeiro See #1531 2014-12-20

Now you can run specific test using shorter format:

codecept run unit tests/unit/Codeception/TestLoaderTest
codecept run unit Codeception
codecept run unit Codeception:testAddCept

codecept run unit Codeception/TestLoaderTest.php
codecept run unit Codeception/TestLoaderTest
codecept run unit Codeception/TestLoaderTest.php:testAddCept
codecept run unit Codeception/TestLoaderTest:testAddCept

codecept run unit tests/unit/Codeception
codecept run unit tests/unit/Codeception:testAddCept
codecept run unit tests/unit/Codeception/TestLoaderTest.php
codecept run unit tests/unit/Codeception/TestLoaderTest.php:testAddCept
codecept run unit tests/unit/Codeception/TestLoaderTest
codecept run unit tests/unit/Codeception/TestLoaderTest:testAddCept

• [Db] Remove table constraints prior to drop table in clean up for SqlSrv by jonsa 2014-12-20
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Fixed: submitForm with form using site-root relative paths may fail depending on configuration #1510 by zbateson 2014-12-20
• [WebDriver][PhpBrowser][Frameworks] seeInField method to work for radio, checkbox and select fields. Thanks to zbateson 2014-12-20
• Fixed usage of --no-colors flag by zbateson. Issue #1562 2014-12-20
• [REST] sendXXX methods now encode objects implementing JsonSerializable interfaces. 2014-12-19
• [REST] added methods to validate JSON structure 2014-12-19

seeResponseJsonMatchesJsonPath validates response JSON against JsonPath. Usage of JsonPath requires library flow/jsonpath to be installed.

seeResponseJsonMatchesXpath validates response JSON against XPath. It converts JSON structure into valid XML document and executes XPath for it.

grabDataFromResponseByJsonPath method was added as well to grab data JSONPath.

• [REST] grabDataFromJsonResponse deprecated in favor of grabDataFromResponseByJsonPath 2014-12-19
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] fixed Unreachable field error while filling [] fields in input and textarea fields. Issues #1585 #1602 2014-12-18

2.0.8

• Dependencies updated: facebook/php-webdriver 0.5.x and guzzle 5 2014-11-17
• [WebDriver] Fixed selectOption and (dont)seeOptionIsSelected for multiple radio button groups by MasonM. See #1467 2014-11-18
• [WebDriver][PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Clicked submit button can be specified as 3rd parameter in submitForm method by zbateson. See #1518
• [ZF1] Format ZF response to Symfony\Component\BrowserKit\Response by MOuli90. Fixes #1476
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] fixed grabValueFrom method by zbateson. See #1512
• [Db] Fixed Postgresql error with schemas by rafreis. Fixes #970
• [PhpBrowser] Fix for meta refresh tags with interval by zbateson. See #1515
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Fixed: grabTextFrom doesn’t work with regex by zbateson. See #1519
• Cest tests support multiple @before and @after annotations. Thanks to draculus and zbateson. See #1517
• [FTP] Stops test execution on failed connection by yegortokmakov
• [AMQP] Fix for purging queues on initialization stage. Check for open channel is not needed and it prevents from cleaning queue by yegortokmakov
• CodeCoverage remote context configuration added by synchrone. See #1524 Documentation updated
• Implemented better descriptions for error exception. Fix #1503
• Added c3_url option to code coverage settings. c3_url allows to explicitly set url for index file with c3 included. See #1024
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Fixed selecting checkbock in a group of checkboxes #1535
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] submitForm sends default values for radio buttons and checkboxes by zbateson. Fixes #1507 2014-11-3
• [ZF2] Close any open ZF2 sessions by FnTm. See #1486 2014-10-24

2.0.7

• [Db] Made the postgresql loader load $$ syntax correctly by rtuin. See #1450 2014-10-12
• [Yii1] fixed syntax typo in Yii1 Connector by xt99 2014-10-12
• [PhpBrowser][WebDriver] amOnUrl method added for opening absolute urls. This behavior taken from amOnPage method, initially introduced in 2.0.6 2014-10-12
• Fixed usage of whitespaces in wantTo. See #1456 2014-10-12
• [WebDriver][PhpBrowser][Frameworks] fillField is matching element by name, then by CSS. Fixes #1454 2014-10-12

2.0.6

• Fixed list of executed suites while running included suites by gureedo. See #1427 2014-10-08
• [Frameworks] support files and request names containing square brackets, dots, spaces. See #1438. Thanks to kkopachev 2014-10-08
• [PhpBrowser] array of files for Guzzle to support format: file[foo][bar]. Fixes #342 by kkopachev 2014-10-07
• Added strict mode for XML generation. 2014-10-06

In this mode only standard JUnit attributes are added to XML reports, so special attributes like feature won’t be included. This improvement fixes usage XML reports with Jenkins #1408 To enable strict xml generation add to codeception.yml:

settings:
    strict_xml: true

• Fixed retrieval of codecoverage reports on remote server #1379 2014-10-06
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Malformed XPath won’t throw fatal error, but makes tests fail. Fixes #1409 2014-10-06
• Build command generates actors for included suites. See #1267 2014-10-03
• CodeCoverage throws error on unsuccessful requests (status code is not 200) to remote server. Fixes #346 2014-10-03
• CodeCoverage can be disabled per suite. Fix #1249 2014-10-02
• Fix: –colors and –no-colors options can override settings from config 2014-10-02
• [WebDriver] waitForElement* methods accept strict locators and WebDriverBy as parameters. See #1396 2014-09-29
• [PhpBrowser] executeInGuzzle uses baseUrl set from config. Fixes #1416 2014-09-29
• [Laravel4] fire booted callbacks between requests without kernel reboot. Fixes #1389, See #1415 2014-09-29
• [WebDriver][PhpBrowser][Frameworks] submitForm accepts forms with document-relative paths. Fixes #1274 2014-09-28
• [WebDriver][PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Fixed #1381: fillField fails for a form without a submit button by zbateson 2014-09-28
• [PhpBrowser][WebDriver] amOnPage now accepts absolute urls 2014-09-27
• [Db] ignore errors from lastInsertId by tomykaira 2014-09-27
• [WebDriver] saves HTML snapshot on fail 2014-09-27
• [WebDriver] fixed #1392: findField should select by id, css, then fall back on xpath 2014-09-27
• [WebDriver] Don’t check for xpath if css selector is set, by Danielss89 #1367 2014-09-27
• Specify actor class for friends by tomykaira. See #1394 2014-09-27

2.0.5

• [Queue] module added with AWS, Iron.io, and Beanstalkd support. Thanks to nathanmac 2014-08-21
• [WebDriver] fixed attachFile error message when file does not exists #1333 by TroyRudolph 2014-08-21
• [Asserts] Added assertLessThan and assertLessThanOrEqual by Great-Antique 2014-08-21
• [ZF2] fixed #1283 by dkiselew 2014-08-21
• Added functionality to Stub to allow ConsecutiveCallStub. See #1300 by nathanmac 2014-08-21
• Cest generator inserts object into _before and _after methods by TroyRudolph 2014-08-21
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Fixed #1304 - ->selectOption() fails if two submit buttons present by fdjohnston 2014-08-21
• [WebDriver][PhpBrowser][Frameworks] seeNumberOfElements method added by dynasource 2014-08-21
• recursive runner for included suites by dynasource 2014-08-21
• Disabled skipped/incomplete tests logging in jUnit logger for smooth Bamboo integration by ayastreb 2014-08-21

2.0.4

• [Laravel4] More functional, cli, and api tests added to demo application https://github.com/Codeception/sample-l4-app 2014-08-05
• Fix: GroupManager uses DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR for loaded tests 2014-08-05
• [Laravel4] Uses app.url config value for creating requests. Fixes #1095 2014-08-04
• [Laravel4] seeAuthenticated / dontSeeAuthenticated assertions added to check that current user is authenticated 2014-08-04
• [Laravel4] logout action added 2014-08-04
• [Laravel4] amLoggedAs can login user by credentials 2014-08-04
• [Laravel4] Added amOnRoute, amOnAction, seeCurrentRouteIs, seeCurrentActionIs actions 2014-08-04
• [Laravel4] Added haveEnabledFilters and haveDisabledFilters actions to toggle filters in runtime 2014-08-04
• [Laravel4] Added filters option to enable filters on testing 2014-08-04
• [REST] seeResponseContainsJson should not take arrays order into account. See #1268 2014-08-04
• [REST] grabDataFromJsonResponse accepts empty path to return entire json response 2014-08-04
• [REST] print_r replaced with var_export for better output on json comparison #1210 2014-08-02
• [REST] Reset request variables in the before hook by brutuscat #1232 2014-08-01
• [Db] Oci driver for oracle database by Sikolasol #1234 #1243 2014-08-01
• [Laravel4] Unit testing and test environment are now configurable #1255 by ipalaus 2014-08-01
• [Laravel4] Fixed Cest testing when using Laravel’s Auth #1258 by ipalaus 2014-08-01
• FIX #948 code coverage HTML: uncovered files missing by RLasinski 2014-07-26
• [Laravel4] project root relative config parameter added by kernio 2014-07-26

2.0.3

• [Symfony2] Symfony3 directory structure implemented by a6software 2014-07-21
• Console: printing returned values 2014-07-21
• FIX: TAP and JSON logging should not be started when no option –json or –tap provided 2014-07-21
• [Doctrine2] FIXED: persisting transaction between Symfony requests 2014-07-19
• [Symfony2] created Symfony2 connector with persistent services 2014-07-19
• [Doctrine2] implemented haveInRepository method (previously empty) 2014-07-17
• When Cest fails after method wont be executed 2014-07-17
• [Laravel4] App is rebooted before each test. Fixes #1205 2014-07-15
• FIX: codeception/specify is now available in phar 2014-07-14
• FIX: Interactive console works again 2014-07-09
• _bootstrap.php is now loaded before beforeSuite module hooks.
• FIX: Suite _bootstrap.php was loaded after test run by samdark 2014-07-11

2.0.2

• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] correctly send values when there are several submit buttons in a form by TrustNik 2014-07-08
• [REST] fixed connection with framework modules 2014-07-06
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] checkOption now works for checkboxes with array[] name by TrustNik
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] FIX: seeOptionIsSelected and dontSeeOptionIsSelected now works with radiobuttons by TrustNik 2014-07-05
• [FTP] MODULE ADDED by nathanmac 2014-07-05
• [WebDriver] Enabled remote upload of local files to remote selenium server by motin 2014-07-05
• [Yii2][Yii1] disabled logging for better functional test performance

2.0.1

• [Phalcon1] Fixed connector
• [WebDriver] added seeInPageSource and dontSeeInPageSource methods
• [WebDriver] see method now checks only for visible BODY element by artyfarty
• [REST] added Bearer authentication by dizews
• removed auto added submit buttons in forms previously used as hook for DomCrawler
• BUGFIX: PHP 5.4.x compatibility fixed. Sample error output: ‘Method WelcomeCept.php does not exist’ #1084 #1069 #1109
• Second parameter of Cest method is treated as scenario variable on parse. Fix #1058
• prints raw stack trace including codeception classes in -vvv mode
• screenshots on fail are saved to properly named files #1075
• [Symfony2] added debug config option to switch debug mode by pmcjury

2.0.0

• renamed _logs dir to _output by default
• renamed _helpers dir to _support by default
• Guy renamed to Tester
• Bootstrap command got 3 installation modes: default, compat, setup
• added –coverage-text option

2.0.0-RC2

• removed fabpot/goutte, added Guzzle4 connector
• group configuration can accept groups by patterns

2.0.0-RC

• [WebDriver] makeScreenshot does not use filename of a test
• added grabAttributeFrom
• seeElement to accept attributes in second parameter: seeElement(‘input’,[‘name’=>’login’])

2.0.0-beta

• executeInGuzzle is back in PhpBrowser
• environment can be accessed via ->env in test
• before/after methods of Cest can take object
• moved logger to extension
• bootstrap files are loaded before suite only
• extension can reconfigure global config
• removed RefactorAddNamespace and Analyze commands
• added options to set output files for xml, html reports, and coverage
• added extension to rerun failed tests
• webdriver upgraded to 0.4
• upgraded to PHPUnit 4