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rdx/behat-variables
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Store variables across Scenarios during Behat testing

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Behat Variables
===============

[](#behat-variables)

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Stores your custom variables across Scenarios during Feature testing.

The idea
--------

[](#the-idea)

You're making users and profiles to test, and you want to use those creations further in the same Feature. You can't, because: 1) Behat arguments are literals, and 2) FeatureContext lives only for every Scenario, not for the entire Feature.

With behat-variables, you can save & use those variables: user ids, passwords, activation tokens, etc.

```
Given a new user "Fred"           # Your custom step, with a return value
And I save it into "UID"          # A provided step that saves that return value
When I go to "/users/"     # Custom step, with dynamic argument
Then I should see "Hello, Fred!"  # Custom step, with predictable content

```

The `` part is the magic. Works for any argument, not just URIs.

Set up
------

[](#set-up)

In order to use variables in your Behat feature, you must do 2 things:

- Add the Feature Context class: `rdx\behatvars\BehatVariablesContext`
- Add the Extension class: `rdx\behatvars\BehatVariablesExtension`

See the Behat docs for where they fit in `behat.yml`, or see this repo's `behat.yml`:

```
default:
  suites:
    default:
      contexts:
        - rdx\behatvars\BehatVariablesContext
        - FeatureContext
  extensions:
      rdx\behatvars\BehatVariablesExtension: ~

```

And make sure your custom steps have a **scalar return value, or an array of scalars**:

```
/**
 * @Given a value :value
 */
public function aValue($value) {
  return $value;
}

/**
 * @Given values :value1 and :value2
 */
public function valuesAnd($value1, $value2) {
  return [$value1, $value2];
}

```

Examples
--------

[](#examples)

See `features/simple.feature` for very simple examples (with only 3 custom steps). It's the test used to test this package.

Features
--------

[](#features)

This package provides 1 step, in several formats:

```
(I|we) save (it|that|those|them) into "VARIABLE_NAME"

```

So you can make several custom step combinations:

```
Given "4" cars in the same shop                   # Custom
And we save those into "CAR1,CAR2,CAR3,CAR4"      # Provided

Given a user "Fred" in organization "McDonald's"  # Custom
And we save those into "USER,ORGANIZATION"        # Provided

```

###  Health Score

42

—

FairBetter than 90% of packages

Maintenance18

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity49

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community18

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity67

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 88.9% 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 ~119 days

Recently: every ~149 days

Total

6

Last Release

3105d ago

### Community

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