Future of Codeception?

[koehnlein]

Hi everybody,

I sometimes hear rumors, Codeception would be dead and I should convert to CodeceptJS or even Cypress. But I still see great people working on this repository and don't see any reason to not trust my favorite E2E testing framework anymore?

Are there any internal discussions or decissions regarding the future of Codeception, I should know and did not find?

Thanks for all your work!

[Naktibalda]

Rumors of the death are exagerated, but the future depends on you.

Compatibility with PHPUnit 10 (aka Codeception 5) was my last big change,
I have no more plans for Codeception, but I will do a little bit of maintenance, if there is noone else to pickup it.

@DavertMik has been hands off since 2017, but he contributed some shiny feature every year or two, I hope that there will be more of them.

We still have a few core contributors who are mostly interested in the modules they use.
Pull requests of new contributors are mostly raised in modules too.

I am not aware of any plans for Codeception 6.

[DavertMik]

@koehnlein yeah, we had this conversation in Twitter 😅

So far it is the point where the community can take it and improve.

@Naktibalda helped a lot by maintaining it all this time, but I think we both lost some passion about PHP.

Codeception is great and is a very ambitious project of uniting all tests in one tool and I still see that no other PHP framework can cover everything from Unit to Acceptance tests providing the best architecture for that. So I hope there will be volunteers who actively use it to keep it updated. I will provide all my support if needed.

As for me, I can still push some new features once in a while but I don't use any PHP framework or webdriver so most of work on maintaining Codeception goes out of my primary scope of interest.

[TavoNiievez]

I will continue to contribute as long as I have time to do so.
My peak of contributions was during the pandemic because I had a lot more free time.
But I still like Codeception.
I never used it in my work so my contributions don't depend on that.

My priority is still to maintain module-symfony so I can keep contributing new features there.
For the rest of the repositories at the moment I could only do maintenance or PR reviews.

[laoneo]

As long as the maintainers keep merging pull requests, I would say that this project is still alive. If contributions get lost, then we have a problem.