Environment specific settings

Some of the settings in behat.yml are environment specific. For example the base URL may be http://mysite.localhost on your local development environment, while on a test server it might be http://127.0.0.1:8080. Some other environment specific settings are the Drupal root path and the paths to search for subcontexts.

If you intend to run your tests on different environments these settings should not be committed to behat.yml. Instead they should be exported in an environment variable. Before running tests Behat will check the BEHAT_PARAMS environment variable and add these settings to the ones that are present in behat.yml. This variable should contain a JSON object with your settings.

Example JSON object:

{
    "extensions": {
        "Behat\\MinkExtension": {
            "base_url": "http://myproject.localhost"
        },
        "Drupal\\DrupalExtension": {
            "drupal": {
                "drupal_root": "/var/www/myproject"
            }
        }
    }
}

To export this into the BEHAT_PARAMS environment variable, squash the JSON object into a single line and surround with single quotes:

There is also a Drush extension that can help you generate these environment variables.