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codeception/base
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BDD-style testing framework

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Codeception
===========

[](#codeception)

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**Modern PHP Testing for everyone**

Codeception is a modern full-stack testing framework for PHP. Inspired by BDD, it provides an absolutely new way of writing acceptance, functional and even unit tests. Powered by PHPUnit.

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[](#contributions)

At Codeception we are glad to receive contributions from the community. If you want to send additions or fixes to the code or the documentation please check the [Contributing guide](https://github.com/Codeception/Codeception/blob/2.4/CONTRIBUTING.md).

### At a Glance

[](#at-a-glance)

Describe what you test and how you test it. Use PHP to write descriptions faster.

Run tests and see what actions were taken and what results were seen.

#### Sample test

[](#sample-test)

```
$I->amOnPage('/');
$I->click('Pages');
$I->click('New');
$I->see('New Page');
$I->submitForm('form#new_page', ['title' => 'Movie Review']);
$I->see('page created'); // notice generated
$I->see('Movie Review','h1'); // head of page of is our title
$I->seeInCurrentUrl('pages/movie-review'); // slug is generated
$I->seeInDatabase('pages', ['title' => 'Movie Review']); // data is stored in database
```

For unit testing you can stay on classic PHPUnit tests, as Codeception can run them too.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

### Composer

[](#composer)

```
php composer.phar require "codeception/codeception"

```

### Phar

[](#phar)

Download [codecept.phar](http://codeception.com/codecept.phar)

Copy it into your project.

You can also make Codeception an executable and it put it into your `$PATH`, for instance:

```
wget http://codeception.com/codecept.phar

chmod +x codecept.phar

sudo mv codecept.phar /usr/local/bin/codecept

```

You can then run Codecept in the command line using: `codecept bootstrap`, `codecept run`, etc

Run CLI utility:

```
php codecept.phar

```

See also [Installation](http://codeception.com/install) | **[QuickStart](http://codeception.com/quickstart)**

Getting Started
---------------

[](#getting-started)

After you successfully installed Codeception, run this command:

```
codecept bootstrap

```

This will create a default directory structure and default test suites.

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

[Documentation](http://codeception.com/docs/01-Introduction)

Documentation is included within the project. Look for it in the ['docs' directory](https://github.com/Codeception/Codeception/tree/master/docs).

License
-------

[](#license)

MIT

(c) [Codeception Team](http://codeception.com/credits)2011-2019

###  Health Score

53

—

FairBetter than 97% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity50

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community45

Growing community involvement

Maturity86

Battle-tested with a long release history

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 61.5% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~19 days

Total

141

Last Release

2403d ago

Major Versions

1.8.3 → 2.0.0-alpha2014-02-18

1.8.5 → 2.0.0-RC22014-05-13

1.8.6 → 2.0.02014-06-06

1.8.7 → 2.0.22014-07-08

2.5.x-dev → 3.0.02019-04-24

PHP version history (6 changes)1.0.9PHP >=5.3.2

1.5.0PHP >=5.3.3

2.0.0-alphaPHP >=5.4.0

1.8.4PHP >=5.3.19

2.1.7PHP >=5.4.0 <8.0

2.4.2PHP >=5.6.0 <8.0

### Community

Maintainers

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Tags

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