Writing acceptance tests using Codeception

Acceptance testing is a useful way to test that your application is outputting the correct information to the browser. Using a package such as Codeception, we can automate these tests.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we'll need a working copy of Laravel installed.

How to do it...

To complete this recipe, follow the given steps:

1. Open the composer.json file, and add the following line to our require-dev section:

     "codeception/codeception": "dev-master",

2. Open the command line window, and update the app with the following command:

     php composer.phar update
   

3. After it is installed, we need to run the bootstrap command in the terminal, as shown in the following command:

     vendor/bin/codecept bootstrap app
   

4. In the app/tests/acceptance directory, create a file named as AviatorCept.php using the following code:

   <?php
   
   $I = new WebGuy($scenario);
   $I->wantTo('Make sure all the blueprints are shown');
   $I->amOnPage('/');
   $I->see('All The Blueprints');

5. In our...