How to reset date

When starting a Feature, be sure to reset your data first.

Thoughts on Test preparation

Tests should all start from some known condition. We make it a practice that any data the Tests create should be removed too. We identify the records that are being added and then use a script to remove all the data. We reset that data at the beginning of the test. That way, we start the test with the same, constant position.

Use the "Given I reset token data"

When using the reset data option as shown below:

Feature: home
  In order to navigate the site
  As a visitor
  I want to test navigation

  Background:
    Given I reset "all" data
    Given I am a visitor
    When I go to the "Home" page

you can provide a keyword for the token. The example above passed all as the value.

Implement the function in the ProjectContext

Look at features/bootstrap/ProjectContext.php to add the implementation of the reset as this is project specific.

Here's an example implentation for processing user and all resets. This particular project was a WordPress project and we exposed a API for handling the request. Note that if any other argument then user or all is passed in, that an Exception is thrown. Also note that we are using the getMinkParameters to get the base_url so that our reset will work w/ the correct website (e.g. 'dev', 'staging', 'local')g

    /**
     * @Given I reset :arg1 data
     */
    public function iResetData($arg1)  {
        if ($arg1 == 'user'
            ||
            $arg1 == 'all') {

            $params = $this->getMinkParameters();
            $url = $params['base_url'] . "/wp-content/themes/jumpoff/data-reset/reset/$arg1";

            try {
                $curl = curl_init();            
                curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
                    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
                    CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false,                    
                    CURLOPT_URL => $url,
                    CURLOPT_USERAGENT => 'cURL Request'
                ));
                // Send the request & save response to $resp
                $resp = curl_exec($curl);
                echo $resp;
                // Close request to clear up some resources
                curl_close($curl);
            } catch (Exception $e) {
                eval(\Psy\sh());
                throw $e;
            }
        } else {
            throw new Exception("invalid arg for iResetData: $arg1");
        }
    }