as discussed in slack with christian:

The plan is to archive / suspend neos/behat. It doesnt fit in the world anymore and we have no resources to maintain an opinionated recommended behat setup. One should just use behat like everyone else too. The one thing we can provide is a simple way to boot flow inside of behat and that will be provided by neos/flow as autoloaded class.

steps:

• move parts of FlowContextTrait to neos/flow as autloaded class and use it every where
  • neos/flow-development-collection#3181
• deprecate it in the readme and show how to use neos/flow trait instead
• deprecate it for composer
• remove it from the base and dev distributions as dependency

Hi everyone,

while testing one of our Flow packages with Behat we tried to reuse code from the Neos.Behat package and noticed this issue:
Syntax for disabling foreign key checks and truncating tables for sqlite differs from mysql.

The matching PR is #17

Regards
Jona

The original package is about to be marked as abandoned, see Behat/MinkExtension#370 (comment)

I was trying to use the @BeforeSuite hook as documented in http://behat.org/en/latest/user_guide/context/hooks.html#behat-hook-system but discovered that the whole "Testwork" part was introduced in 3.0.x.

In neos/behat we are still sticking to "stone-aged" Behat 2.4.* (from 2013!!). Is there any reason for that?

Current would be 3.3.*.

If e.g. the setup was run based on Flow 6.3 and is called again based on 7.1 (after an update), the Behat setup is not even touched, resulting in (potential) errors if method signatures conflict or the like.

neos/behat should require behat/behat in order to make everything work in split installations.

Originally posted by @kdambekalns in neos/neos-development-collection#4687 (comment)

In my project we have Neos 2.3 and thus Flow 3.3 (still known as typo3/flow).

In the requirements of neos/behat we have "neos/flow": "*" which will thus fetch the latest neos/flow parallel to my currently installed typo3/flow.

Wouldn't it be safer to specify the minimum required Flow version (where the namespace renaming has happened already)? It crashes than on the "require_once" which in newer versions tries to load from the Neos.Flow instead of TYPO3.Flow (as I still have it).

My solution would be to hardcode the latest version that is compatible: "neos/behat": "~2.4".

Or should I stick to using the "deprecated" flowpack/behat instead?

The latest change in #22 lead to all Flow 5.3 builds failing the behat steps. The reason is, that the behat:setup command will run composer install in the Build/Behat folder (https://github.com/neos/behat/blob/master/Classes/Command/BehatCommandController.php#L48). This contains the composer.lock file, that is now pinned onto behat/behat 3.8.1 and requiring PHP ^7.2 || ^8.0

Why don't we do a composer update? Why is the behat setup being pinned onto a specific set of dependency versions? As is the composer.lock is quite fragile to being updated on a later PHP version than is the lowest version supported by the lowest supported branch of Flow.

With Flow 7.0 the Symfony Console version is 5.2, that seems to be incompatible with the 4.2 version used here currently. See https://travis-ci.com/github/neos/flow-development-collection/jobs/456009631 where this comes from:

PHP Fatal error: Declaration of Symfony\Component\Console\Output\BufferedOutput::doWrite(string $message, bool $newline) must be compatible with Symfony\Component\Console\Output\Output::doWrite($message, $newline) in /home/travis/build/neos/flow-development-distribution/Packages/Libraries/symfony/console/Output/BufferedOutput.php on line 45

v5.2.0:

• https://github.com/symfony/console/blob/v5.2.0/Output/Output.php
• https://github.com/symfony/console/blob/v5.2.0/Output/BufferedOutput.php

v4.2.2:

• https://github.com/symfony/console/blob/v4.2.2/Output/Output.php
• https://github.com/symfony/console/blob/v4.2.2/Output/BufferedOutput.php

Indeed quite some packages are outdated:

$ composer outdated
behat/behat                         v3.5.0  v3.8.1  Scenario-oriented BDD framework for PHP 5.3
behat/gherkin                       v4.5.1  v4.6.2  Gherkin DSL parser for PHP 5.3
behat/mink                          v1.7.1  v1.8.1  Browser controller/emulator abstraction for PHP
behat/mink-browserkit-driver        1.3.3   v1.3.4  Symfony2 BrowserKit driver for Mink framework
behat/mink-selenium2-driver         v1.3.1  v1.4.0  Selenium2 (WebDriver) driver for Mink framework
behat/transliterator                v1.2.0  v1.3.0  String transliterator
container-interop/container-interop 1.2.0   1.2.0   Promoting the interoperability of container objects (DIC, SL, etc.)
Package container-interop/container-interop is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use psr/container instead.
fabpot/goutte                       v3.2.3  v4.0.1  A simple PHP Web Scraper
guzzlehttp/guzzle                   6.3.3   7.2.0   Guzzle is a PHP HTTP client library
guzzlehttp/promises                 v1.3.1  1.4.0   Guzzle promises library
guzzlehttp/psr7                     1.5.2   1.7.0   PSR-7 message implementation that also provides common utility methods
instaclick/php-webdriver            1.4.5   1.4.7   PHP WebDriver for Selenium 2
ralouphie/getallheaders             2.0.5   3.0.3   A polyfill for getallheaders.
symfony/browser-kit                 v4.2.2  v5.2.0  Symfony BrowserKit Component
symfony/class-loader                v3.4.21 v3.4.47 Symfony ClassLoader Component
symfony/config                      v4.2.2  v5.2.0  Symfony Config Component
symfony/console                     v4.2.2  v5.2.0  Symfony Console Component
symfony/contracts                   v1.0.2  v2.3.1  A set of abstractions extracted out of the Symfony components
symfony/css-selector                v3.4.21 v5.2.0  Symfony CssSelector Component
symfony/dependency-injection        v4.2.2  v5.2.0  Symfony DependencyInjection Component
symfony/dom-crawler                 v4.2.2  v5.2.0  Symfony DomCrawler Component
symfony/event-dispatcher            v4.2.2  v5.2.0  Symfony EventDispatcher Component
symfony/filesystem                  v4.2.2  v5.2.0  Symfony Filesystem Component
symfony/polyfill-ctype              v1.10.0 v1.20.0 Symfony polyfill for ctype functions
symfony/polyfill-mbstring           v1.10.0 v1.20.0 Symfony polyfill for the Mbstring extension
symfony/translation                 v4.2.2  v5.2.0  Symfony Translation Component
symfony/yaml                        v4.2.2  v5.2.0  Symfony Yaml Component

We moved from Flowpack.Behat to Neos.Behat bot do not provide any Migrations. This should be fixed