Codeception

• Fixed injecting dependencies to actor in Cest and Gherkin formats #6506
• Variadic parameters can be skipped in dependency injection #6505

• Added new attributes (Prepare, Env, BeforeClass,AfterClass, Given, When, Then)
• Class level attributes are applied to all methods
• Codeception attributes are supported in unit tests
• Cest format can use data providers from other classes

• Substitute invalid UTF-8 characters in debug and step output by @SamoylenkoSU (#6483)

• Implemented basic attribute support (#6449) by @DavertMik
• Significantly reduced dependencies on PHPUnit
• Replaced PHPUnit\Framework\TestResult with ResultAggregator
• Added assertionCount method to ResultAggregator
• DotReporter prints standard result summary (#6441) by @Orchestrator404
• Fixed DotReporter output format
• Fixed fetching remote code coverage data (#6448)
• Loading .env file must not override existing environment variables (#6477)
• All changes from 4.2.0 and 4.2.1:
  • Improved multi-application experience, allow filtering suites by name (#6435) by @calvinalkan
  • Configuration override is passed to included suites (#5978) by @calvinalkan
  • Made dry-run command work with module methods having return types (#6470)
  • Support for expectError/Warning/Notice/Deprecation methods in unit tests (Requires PHPUnit 8.4+)
  • Implemented new setting convert_deprecations_to_exceptions (#6469)
  • Action file generator: Do not return when return type is never (#6462)
  • Execute setupBeforeClass/tearDownAfterClass only once (#6481)

• Execute setupBeforeClass/tearDownAfterClass only once (#6481)
• Handle action with intersection return type correctly in dry-run command

• Improved multi-application experience, allow filtering suites by name (#6435) by @calvinalkan
• Configuration override is passed to included suites (#5978) by @calvinalkan
• Made dry-run command work with module methods having return types (#6470)
• Support for expectError/Warning/Notice/Deprecation methods in unit tests (Requires PHPUnit 8.4+)
• Implemented new setting convert_deprecations_to_exceptions (#6469)
• Action file generator: Do not return when return type is never (#6462)
• Backported test.useless event from Codeception 5.0 (#6459)

• Fix incorrect type declaration in InitTemplate by @ziadoz
• Stricter check for phpdotenv v5 (older versions are not supported)
• Throw exception if actor setting is missing in suite configuration
• Use correct types in ParamsLoader and Configuration classes, avoid type errors

• Added --shard, --grep, --filter options (#6399)
• Added new code coverage settings (#6423)
• Dynamic configuration with parameters can use arrays and other non-string types (#6409)
• Introduced codecept_pause function and $this->pause() in unit tests (#6387)
• Interactive console is executed in the scope of paused test class.
• Array of variables can be passed to all pause functions/methods
• Replaced Hoa Console with PsySH in codecept console
• Used Symfony VarDumper in codecept_debug (#6406)
• Fixed type error in code coverage exclude filter by @W0rma
• Fix type error in Recorder extension

• Use PHPUnit 9 until PHPUnit 10 is released.
• Read about earlier change in CHANGELOG.

• RunBefore extension prints error output and stops execution if command failed
• Action file generator: Fixed handling of intersection types
• Action file generator: Fixed handling of self and parent types

• Support intersection types in actions
• Introduced PSR-12 code style
• Extracted some code to modules and shared libs
• Fixed new incompatibilities with PHPUnit 10

• Fix handling of previous exception in ExtensionException
• Improved parser fix for PHP keywords as named parameters
• Add link to https://helpukrainewin.org

• Generators create namespaced test suites by default (#6071) by @DavertMik
• Test can be filtered by data provider case number or name (#6363) by @Naktibalda
• Removed generate:cept command (Cept format is deprecated)
• Removed settings disallow_test_output and log_incomplete_skipped.
• Removed setting paths.log (it was replaced by paths.output in Codeception 2.3)
• Removed suite setting class_name (replaced by actor in Codeception 2.3)
• Removed global setting actor (replaced by actor_prefix in Codeception 2.3)
• Removed Configuration::logDir method (replaced by Configuration::logDir in 2.0)
• ParamLoader throws exception if xml file is used but simplexml extension is missing (#6346) by @mdoelker
• Updated codebase to use PHP 8.0 features by @TavoNiievez
• Don't report test as useless if it failed (fixed bug introduced in alpha1)
• Don't report local test coverage for remote suites (fixed bug introduced in alpha1)
• Moved XmlBuilder class to module-soap

• Decoupled test execution and reporting from PHPUnit
• Custom reporters implementing TestListener are no longer supported and must be converted to Extensions
• Tests of all formats are reported as useless if they perform no assertions and reports_useless_tests setting is enabled
• Added path_coverage setting to enable path and branch coverage #6158 by @s0lus
• Added optional value to fail-fast option (#6275) by @Verest
• Removed JSON and TAP loggers
• Removed code coverage blacklist functionality
• Removed deprecated class aliases
  • Codeception\TestCase\Test
  • Codeception\Platform\Group
  • Codeception\Platform\Group
  • Codeception\TestCase
• Removed settings disallow_test_output, log_incomplete_skipped and report_useless_tests
• Introduced strict types in the code base by @TavoNiievez
• Compatible with PHPUnit 10 only
• Compatible with Symfony 4.4 - 6.0
• Requires PHP 8.0 or higher

• Fixed duplicate test runs when codeception.yml and codeception.dist.yml are present in multi-app setup by @calvinalkan
• Action generator handles mixed type correctly
• Parser fix to allow named parameters named class and namespace

• Strictly compare test hashes to avoid skipping tests #6320 by @michel-cetina
• Fixed deprecation message in codecept build #6311 by @barmax

• Renamed editorUrl setting to editor_url for consistency
• Fixed wildcard matching of group files (#6302) by @DavertMik

• Added editorUrl setting to codeception.yml (#6261) by @ThomasLandauer
• Reverted optional value to fail-fast option because it was breaking change (#6290)
• Fixed E_DEPRECATED warnings in Example class on PHP 8.1 (#6298) by @fabacino

• Update dependencies (https://github.com/Codeception/Codeception/pull/6296)

• Fixed running tests from group files in included configs (#6292) by @DavertMik

In this example, tests listed in slow.txt will be executed from backend/tests and frontend/tests:

# included configs
include:
  - backend/tests
  - frontend/tests

# groups defined in files
groups:
  slow: slow.txt