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dennisdigital/behat-references-generator
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Generates non-existing referenced entities when creating content

1.0-alpha(7y ago)0111[2 issues](https://github.com/dennisinteractive/behat-references-generator/issues)[2 PRs](https://github.com/dennisinteractive/behat-references-generator/pulls)MITPHP

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Behat References Generator
==========================

[](#behat-references-generator)

Generates non-existing referenced entities when creating content

### Installation

[](#installation)

1. `composer require dennisdigital/behat-references-generator:dev-master`

You might need to add it to repositories first

```
"repositories": {
    "behat-references-generator": {
      "type": "vcs",
      "url": "git@github.com:dennisinteractive/behat-references-generator.git",
      "no-api": true
    }
.
.
.

```

2. Edit behat.yml and add the contexts and configuration following the example in \[behat.yml.dist\]:

### Requirements

[](#requirements)

You need to enable these modules

- Entity API

**For the demo you will need to enable this module:**

- Node Reference Content (Copy from the fixtures folder into the site's modules folder)

### Running

[](#running)

- Go into the tests folder
- Run `./behat --format=pretty`

### Failing tests

[](#failing-tests)

You can find the screenshots of failing tests on the `files/screenshots` folder

### @todo

[](#todo)

- make field mapping work
- make default content for image fields work
- make default content for node fields work
- make yml overrides for image fields work
- make yml overrides for content fields work
- make step definition overrides for image fields work
- make step definition overrides for content fields work
- make url aliases work on nodes, terms and images
- fix php errors when running tests
- allow to have more than one alias for the same field name
- support default content for terms
- support content generation for terms
- upgrade drupal extension and drupal driver
- update readme

###  Health Score

24

—

LowBetter than 32% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity52

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

2830d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7585951?v=4)[dennisdigital](/maintainers/dennisdigital)[@dennisdigital](https://github.com/dennisdigital)

---

Top Contributors

[![marcelovani](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2162363?v=4)](https://github.com/marcelovani "marcelovani (94 commits)")

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Tags

behatcontentBehatentities

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