Testing your app on Production with Behat

So, your application is now on Production! Start clicking away at hundreds of little and big features, so you can make sure everything went okay; or, better yet, run Behat! Behat on Production? Sounds crazy, but I will cover some tips on how to do this, including how to set up some remote conditions and clean up when you are done.

Getting ready

Any application will do. In my case, I am going to hit production with some tests I made earlier.

How to do it…

The following are the steps to be followed:

1. Tag a Behat test called @smoke or just a scenario that you know is safe to run on Production, for example, features/home/search.feature:

   

2. Update behat.yml by adding a profile to it called production:

   

3. Then run the following:

   > vendor/bin/behat -shome_ui --tags=@smoke --profile=production
   

   Tip

   I run an Artisan command to run all of these.

   Then, you will see it hit the production URL and only the scenarios you feel are safe for Behat.

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