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Chapters:
00:00 - Demo
00:39 - What we're after
02:05 - Defining the actions
04:03 - Crash course on how it works
08:53 - Laravel Dusk

Aaron Francis

A developer describes their process of creating a command line interface (CLI) automation tool using PHP. The tool sends key presses to the CLI and makes assertions to test the user interface. This integration testing approach ensures a smooth user experience by verifying that UI elements behave as expected. Detailed explanations and code snippets illustrate the setup and execution of the testing framework. The entire project is open source and available for public use.

I built a CLI automation tool in PHP (yes really)

While this is cool, the “yes really” has made me wonder if people don’t know the power of writing PHP tools for the cli. I didn’t think it was such a big deal. Heck, I wrote a multi-threaded WebSocket server in PHP about 12 years ago.
PHP can do anything on the cli pretty much every other programming language can do with the added benefit of being a language non-cli programmers might already know.
Cool project though. More testing tools always the right thing in my books.