Running Acceptance Tests Faster With Phantom JS

In this video you will see how switching from using Selenium to PhantomJS can cut your test times almost in half.

PhantomJS can handle Javascript pages just like Selenium, but it runs without requiring a real browser (Chrome, Firefox, etc) and as such, is perfect for running on your test server.

You'll see how easy PhantomJS is to download - no installation required.

First you will see the tests run under Selenium, and then we will stop Selenium, start up PhantomJS using the command:

sudo phantomjs --webdriver=4444

Of course, that's assuming you're running from the PhantomJS download / unzipped bin subdirectory.

One thing you may be wondering - what happens if it all goes wrong? Do you still get your screenshot output in the _output directory? The answer is yes - which is very cool :)

Episodes

#	Title	Duration
1	Installing Codeception in Your Symfony 2 Project	04:20
2	Bootstrapping Codeception	02:09
3	Codeception's Folder Structure	06:43
4	Generating Tests	06:28
5	How to Run Codeception Tests	02:44
6	Our First Acceptance Test	08:00
7	An Alternative Perspective on Acceptance Testing	04:33
8	Acceptance Testing Symfony Forms	08:22
9	Acceptance Testing and Javascript (Part 1 of 2)	07:31
10	Acceptance Testing and Javascript (Part 2 of 2)	08:06
11	An Introduction to Unit Testing in Codeception	04:24
12	Unit Testing a Symfony Service	11:59
13	Integration with Symfony 2	06:27
14	Databases and Unit Tests	14:21
15	Real World Unit Testing - Database Clean Up Issues	06:15
16	Fast PHP Unit Testing with SQLite Database	10:19
17	Mocking the Entity Manager	20:22
18	Codeception Selenium Setup	06:08
19	How to Setup XDebug with PHPStorm	07:36
20	Step Objects and Page Objects	09:35
21	Fizz Buzz Kata	24:43
22	Code Coverage Reports	10:30
23	Running Acceptance Tests Faster With Phantom JS	01:30
24	Mobile Browser Tests	01:18

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Installing Codeception in Your Symfony 2 Project