context-table.md

Table Context

Configuration

Edit behat.yml

default:
    # ...
    suites:
        default:
            # ...
            contexts:
                - # ...
                - Knp\FriendlyContexts\Context\TableContext
    extensions:
        # ...
        Knp\FriendlyContexts\Extension: ~

Examples

With this HTML table

Firstname	Lastname	Login
John	Doe	JD
George	Abitbol	GA
Bob	Sponge	BS

I can use the following steps

  Then I should see the following table
    | Firstname | Lastname | Login |
    | John      | Doe      | JD    |
    | George    | Abitbol  | GA    |
    | Bob       | Sponge   | BS    |
  And I should see the following table # I can use just a part of the table columns
    | Firstname | Lastname |
    | John      | Doe      |
    | George    | Abitbol  |
    | Bob       | Sponge   |
  Then I should see the following table portion # Or just precise a table rows and columns portion
    | Firstname | Lastname |
    | John      | Doe      |
    | Bob       | Sponge   |
  And I should see a table
  And I should see a table with 3 rows
  And I should see a table with "John, George and Bob" in the "Firstname" column

Information

If there is multiple tables in the same page, the steps will throw an error if no table will validate the assertion. If one does, then the step will be green.