Initialise Behat as normal Apply the attached patch: git am 75559.patch Run a single behat scenario. e.g: php admin/tool/behat/cli/run.php --name="Add forum activities and discussions" Tail your web server's error log. e.g. if your Apache error log is in /opt/homebrew/var/log/httpd: tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log Check your phpinfo() to see where your PHP error log is being output. Confirm that the output includes these in the following order : Looking in /Users/nicols/Sites/moodles/sm/moodle/lib/tests/behat/behat_hooks.php at a value of: false Setting 'foo' to 'bar' in /Users/nicols/Sites/moodles/sm/moodle/course/tests/behat/behat_course.php Looking in /Users/nicols/Sites/moodles/sm/moodle/mod/bigbluebuttonbn/tests/behat/behat_mod_bigbluebuttonbn.php at a value of: 'bar' Prior to this patch the value was set before the behat_hooks call then reset the site data, so it was not available in mod_bbb