Testing in WordPress
Max Kovalenkov
Marshmallow Experiment
Our Hero
Day 0: The Jeopardy
Day 5: "All is Lost" (kind of)
Methodologies...
- TDD
- BDD
- FDD
- DDD
- MDD
- ...
- ADHD
Why test?
No more "Déjà Vu"s
Design
Document
...
Confidence
"We write tests to enforce decisions."
- Andrew Nacin
"You can't charge your client for mistakes in your old code that just broke."
- Chris Lema
Ok, convinced. But...
When not to test?
- External dependencies
- One-off stuff or trivial code
- Test is way harder to write than code
- 100% test coverage?
When to test?
- All the other times!
Acceptance
Functional
Integration
Unit
Catapult
TDD
(test-driven development)
The Epiphany
Day 9: The Tools
Unit tests - not always enough
Codeception
Theme Check plugin
Wraith
Wraith at work
Wraith report
How to start?
CI
(continuous integration)
Travis CI
Day 27: Monday
Day 31: Friday
Day 90: team lead
Thank you!
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