Automated Web Acceptance Testing with Behat

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Claims ability to drive end-to-end web acceptance tests for PHP projects using Behat with the Mink drivers (Selenium/WebDriver/Sahi/headless), generating step-definition stubs via behat init and running data-driven scenarios (examples table) across London/Beijing/Mumbai inputs. Shows b.yml and source.yml configs, how to push features to Relish, run tests on Sauce Labs for cross‑browser video/screenshots, and wire results into Jenkins HTML reports; setup is repeatable and demonstrably works.

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1. 0:00Introduction to BDD
2. 2:00Behat and Mink overview
3. 5:08Installation and setup
4. 8:24Writing feature files
5. 12:50Running tests locally
6. 14:11Cloud testing with Sauce Labs
7. 16:06Living documentation
8. 18:31Project structure
9. 20:32CI with Jenkins
10. 23:45Q&A and conclusion

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