I am building a multi-tenant SaaS application which I am trying to write tests for with Behat, using Mink and the Behat Laravel Extension
When you register for an account, you get your own subdomain on the site {account}.tenancy.dev
my behat.yml
file looks like so:
default:
extensions:
Laracasts\Behat:
# env_path: .env.behat
Behat\MinkExtension:
default_session: laravel
base_url: http://tenancy.dev
laravel: ~
I am having problems straight off the bat as when I try to test my registration flow, I am getting a 404 error testing that the new subdomain is accessible, all of the data has been saved correctly, manually testing the process works and the subdomain routing works.
I was wondering if there was any way to do this using Behat and how I would go about setting Behat / Mink to use wildcard subdomains to test SaaS applications?
I am running the test inside the Homestead VM.
After a short while I revisited this problem and found a rather simple solution to be used in my FeatureContext.php
:
$this->setMinkParameter('base_url', $url);
This changes the base url for any scenario it is used in:
/**
* @Given I visit the url :url
*/
public function visitDomain($url)
{
$this->setMinkParameter('base_url', $url);
$this->visit('/');
}
Which is used in the following way:
Scenario: Test Multi Tenancy
Given I have a business "mttest"
When I visit the url "http://mttest.example.com"
Then I should see "mttest"
Obviously this is slightly contrived but does show that what I was intending to do is possible.