如何使用Codeception Acceptance Helper？

Question

I'm trying to login to Joomla backend before all tests in my Cest Class.

I'm using the Joomla Browser Module for that: https://github.com/joomla-projects/joomla-browser

When using it inside the cest class the login gets performed before every test, which is not wanted:

public function _before(AcceptanceTester $I)
{
    $I->doAdministratorLogin();    
}

When adding it to the Acceptance Helper like this:

namespace Helper;

class Acceptance extends \Codeception\Module
{
    public function _beforeSuite($settings = array()) {
        $I = $this;
        $I->doAdministratorLogin();    
    }
}

I get

Call to undefined method Helper\Acceptance::doAdministratorLogin()

Answer 1

You have to retrieve JoomlaBrowser module:

$this->getModule('JoomlaBrowser')->doAdministratorLogin();

Also you used _before method in Cest file, but _beforeSuite in Helper file.
WebDriver object is not initialized in _beforeSuite.

Your options are:

1. move that code to _before

2. call _initialize method in _beforeSuite

   $this->getModule('JoomlaBrowser')->_initialize(); $this->getModule('JoomlaBrowser')->doAdministratorLogin();