"Codeception Essentials"
Unlock the full potential of modern PHP test automation with "Codeception Essentials," a comprehensive guide designed for quality assurance professionals, developers, and technical leads aiming to master the Codeception framework. Beginning with foundational principles, this book methodically unpacks automated testing and walks readers through Codeception's architecture, configuration paradigms, dependency management with Composer, and the diverse testing types—from acceptance to unit testing—supported within the ecosystem. Each concept is presented with clarity, grounding advanced techniques in practical context to ensure seamless integration into contemporary development lifecycles.
Delving into real-world challenges, the book expertly navigates advanced usage patterns such as browser and mobile web automation via WebDriver, synchronizing complex asynchronous UI behaviors, and implementing both scenario-driven and data-driven end-to-end tests. APIs and microservices validation are addressed in depth, revealing sophisticated ways to verify contracts, simulate distributed behaviors, enforce security, and test negative flows. Readers also gain invaluable insights into writing maintainable suites, introducing robust test patterns for legacy code, and leveraging custom modules and helpers to extend functionality to meet bespoke requirements.
Recognizing the demands of modern delivery pipelines, "Codeception Essentials" guides you through continuous integration, parallelization, artifact management, and technical debt reduction, while never losing sight of quality assurance fundamentals. Uniquely, it also covers security, compliance automation, and resilience testing—empowering teams to embed privacy, audit trails, penetration routines, and chaos testing directly into their automated processes. This book is the definitive resource for building, scaling, and sustaining world-class test automation with Codeception.