Initialize a New Behat Project¶

The easiest way to start using Behat in your project is to call behat with the --init option inside your project directory:

$vendor/bin/behat--init

After you run this command, Behat will set up a features directory inside your project:

The newly created features/bootstrap/FeatureContext.php will have an initial context class to get you started:

// features/bootstrap/FeatureContext.php
use Behat\Behat\Context\SnippetAcceptingContext;
use Behat\Gherkin\Node\PyStringNode;
use Behat\Gherkin\Node\TableNode;
class FeatureContext implements SnippetAcceptingContext
{
 /**
 * Initializes context.
 */
 public function __construct()
 {
 }
}

All step definitions and Hooks necessary for testing your project against your features will be represented as methods inside this class.