Panther: test your Symfony apps with real web browsers

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Panther is a PHP end-to-end testing and web‑scraping library that drives real browsers via the W3C WebDriver to execute JavaScript, take screenshots, run custom JS in-page and detect browser‑specific bugs. It implements the BrowserKit API, so existing Symfony functional tests and Goutte scripts run unchanged. Setup is a single Composer command with no extra Panther dependency to install, integrates with PHPUnit and Symfony’s web server, and demoed working with Chrome (Firefox support pending).

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1. 0:00Introduction to Panther
2. 7:50Why Panther for Symfony
3. 14:20Testing Symfony apps with Panther
4. 22:22Panther’s browser automation
5. 28:03Setting up Panther tests
6. 33:25Managing test environments
7. 37:21Performance and tips

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