Behat - Context class not found.

Question

This is my directory structure:

composer.json
composer.phar
vendor/
    bin/
        behat
tests/
    functional/
        behat.yml
        features/
            registration.feature
            bootstrap/
                FeatureContext.php

I did:

cd tests/functional
../../vendor/bin/behat --init

Which created basic structure for me. This is inside behat.yml:

default:
  paths:
    features: '%behat.paths.base%/features'
    bootstrap:  '%behat.paths.base%/features/bootstrap'

Now I try to run BDD tests like this:

vendor/bin/behat -c tests/functional/behat.yml

And I get:

  [RuntimeException]                                                       
  Context class not found.                                                 
  Maybe you have provided wrong or no `bootstrap` path in your behat.yml:  
  http://docs.behat.org/guides/7.config.html#paths                         



behat [--init] [-f|--format="..."] [--out="..."] [--lang="..."] [--[no-]ansi] [--[no-]time] [--[no-]paths] [--[no-]snippets] [--[no-]snippets-paths] [--[no-]multiline] [--[no-]expand] [--story-syntax] [-d|--definitions="..."] [--name="..."] [--tags="..."] [--cache="..."] [--strict] [--dry-run] [--rerun="..."] [--append-snippets] [--append-to="..."] [features]

Any idea what is the problem?

I installed Behat via Composer. This is my composer.json:

{
    "name": "hello",
    "description": "Hello World",
    "minimum-stability": "dev",
    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.3",
        "zendframework/zendframework": "2.1.4",
        "doctrine/common": "dev-master#d7987c96675e153638729383577090feed9854f1"
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "phpunit/phpunit": "3.7.14",
        "behat/behat": "2.4.*@stable"
    }
}

Which I installed with:

php composer.phar install --dev -o

Jordanjordana

Answer 1

This is what worked.

cd tests/functional
../../vendor/bin/behat --init
cd ../../
vendor/bin/behat -c tests/functional/behat.yml

With this config file:

default:
  paths:
    features: features
    bootstrap: features/bootstrap

Jordanjordana

Answer 2

You initialised Behat while being in the tests/functional directory but you're trying to run it from the root directory.

Fix your paths:

default:
  paths:
    features: 'tests/functional/features'
    bootstrap:  'tests/functional/features/bootstrap'

Or run Behat from tests/functional directory.

I'd recommend to keep the original file layout (features in the root dir). Edit: Actually, I tried setting it up myself and it worked with the config you provided. There must be something else you're doing which you didn't specify in the question.

Modestia

Still getting the same error. I have to keep this folder structure as it is a project convention. It cannot be in the root folder. – Jordanjordana

I don't want to change bin folder as well. I am using other libraries as well and their binaries are in vendor/bin/ – Jordanjordana