Behat feature files in a separate git repo

Question

We have a lot of PHP web applications and websites. I have created a behat/mink setup that will work for all of our apps/sites. I want all sites to share a common testing setup so I want to have the /test folder under each project as a Git submodule that contains the behat/mink setup as well as the features/bootstrap/FeatureContext.php that I have customized for our sites. BUT I want the .feature files to remain as part of the app Git repo.

How can I pull this off?

If is simply add *.feature to a .gitignore inside test, the submodule will ignore them but so does the project repo.

b263 b263 · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-31T06:35:15

You can place your feature files outside your submodule with the following configuration:

default:
    suites:
        default:
            paths:
                - %paths.base%/../features

Then your submodule containing the shared configuration could be in /test/behat while the feature files are placed in /test/features and are part of the main repository.

Behat feature files in a separate git repo

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