Behat Progress Fail Output Extension

Warning

This package is deprecated. It is supported until 31 December 2026, after which it will be marked as abandoned and will receive no further releases, fixes, or compatibility updates.

Behat now does this natively. The built-in progress formatter gained an inline_failures option that prints each failed, pending or undefined step as it happens, instead of holding everything back until the end-of-run summary. That is exactly what this extension was built for, so it has served its purpose. Upgrade to the latest Behat and use the core formatter instead - see Migrating to Behat core.

Behat output formatter to show progress as TAP and failures inline.

..
--- FAIL ---
  Then I should have 3 apples # (features/apples.feature):11
    Failed asserting that 2 matches expected 3.
------------
......U.......
--- FAIL ---
  Then I should have 8 apples # (features/apples.feature):25
    Failed asserting that 7 matches expected 8.
------------
.....UU

Installation

composer require --dev drevops/behat-format-progress-fail

Usage

vendor/bin/behat --format=progress_fail

Configure

behat.yml

default:
  extensions:
    DrevOps\BehatFormatProgressFail\FormatExtension: ~

or

behat.yml

default:
  extensions:
    DrevOps\BehatFormatProgressFail\FormatExtension:
      show_output: in-summary # Supported values: yes | no | on-fail

show_output

Show output from within test steps. "Output" is print, echo, var_dump, etc.

• yes - always show the output
• no - do not show the output
• on-fail - only show the output if there are test fails
• in-summary - only show in the summary if there are test fails

Migrating to Behat core

Upgrade Behat, remove this extension from your behat.yml, and enable the option on the built-in progress formatter instead:

behat.yml

default:
  formatters:
    progress:
      inline_failures: true
      show_output: in-summary

Or pass it on the command line:

vendor/bin/behat --format=progress --format-settings='{"inline_failures": true}'

show_output keeps the same four values in core that it has here (yes, no, on-fail, in-summary), so that part of your configuration carries over unchanged.

Then drop the dependency:

composer remove --dev drevops/behat-format-progress-fail

One caveat on timing: inline_failures is merged into Behat's 3.x branch, but it has not been tagged in a stable release yet (the newest is v3.32.0). It will land in the next 3.x release. Until then, stay on this extension - that is what the support window through December 2026 is for.

Maintenance

Lint code

composer lint
composer lint-fix

Run tests

composer test

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