Crash Course: Behat & BDD
Mentor – József Gisem, Staff Software Engineer at MacPaw, 10+ years of experience.
Testing doesn't have to be complicated — especially in PHP development. This hands-on workshop will help you master Behat and the Behavior Driven Development (BDD) approach to create clear, structured, and easily maintainable tests.
Language of the event: Ukrainian
You will learn to test REST APIs, databases, queues, caches, and integrations with external services — without excessive complexity and cumbersome PHPUnit code.
- Focus on real API projects:
- Checking HTTP responses
- Simulating external APIs
- Checking the state of the database after requests
- Integrating tests with Swagger for auto-generation of examples
Mentor – Jozef Gisem, Staff Software Engineer at MacPaw, 10+ years of experience.
This is a hands-on course: you will write your own tests that you can implement in your team the next day.
- What you will get after the workshop:
- Practical experience writing Gherkin scripts for API and backend testing
- A ready-made Behat project that can be adapted to your own infrastructure
- Understanding techniques for testing Redis, queues, databases, and external APIs through BDD
- Integration with Swagger - generating examples based on test responses
- Recommendations for organizing tests in large teams and distributing roles between devs and QA
- This knowledge will help you:
- Implement Behat in your projects to test key business scenarios
- Reliably test integrations with third-party services
- Create tests, that describe the behavior of the system in understandable language
- Improve the interaction between developers, QA and products with transparent Gherkin scripts
- Reduce the number of bugs in production, increase confidence in refactoring and accelerate releases
Format:
- Collaboration: in teams and pairs
- Activities: lectures, meetings, practical and homework
Crash Course: two online sessions on Saturdays.
Dates: 17.05 & 24.05, start at 10:00, (Kyiv time, GMT+3), duration of each class ~4 hours (+break).
Platform: Zoom. You will receive a link to the broadcast before the course starts, and it will also be available on this landing page. In addition, all materials and lecture recordings will be available on the learning platform.
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Interaction:
Number of participants is limited: 25 places
Language of the event: Ukrainian
Language of presentation: Ukrainian and English
Audience:
- PHP developers working with API projects
- PHP teams looking to better test their backend
- Tech leads looking for an approach to implementing BDD in their team
- Testers looking to write automated tests in a clear format
Program
- What is Behat and why is it simpler than PHPUnit
- BDD approach in testing, Gherkin scripts and team interaction
- Testing API calls: statuses, headers, response body
- Creating readable and maintainable tests
- Working with the database: Doctrine Fixtures, checking the state of the database
- Mocking third-party APIs: emulating services, the difference between mock, stub and fake
- Testing Symfony Messenger: message processing, queues, transports
- Redis Testing: Cache, Queues, Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
- Swagger + Behat: Integration with Documentation, Example Generation, Contract Verification
Mentor: Jozef Gisem
— Staff Software Engineer at MacPaw Inc.
— Speaker at Fwdays (PHP & Architecture Talks), DOU and YouTube channels
— A regular participant in the Intern MacPaw educational program: for 4 years in a row he has been helping to integrate beginners into real projects
— Shares experience in the field of architecture and testing, in particular using BDD, Symfony, Redis, Docker and modern API solutions
— You could see József on the stages of Fwdays, read on DOU or listen to interviews on the YouTube channel "It’s raining cats & dogs"
Tickets
Access to online course broadcast: 8 hours
Presentation and materials
Access to course videos (1 year)
Access to chat in the TG, where the speaker will answer questions
Participant certificate
Course participants receive a 10% discount on participation in Fwdays conferences
Available installment payments from Monobank and installment purchases from Privatbank