Testing WordPress

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What is testing?

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  • Stands for automated tests
  • Code to assert application behavior
  • Multiple type of tests

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Effective testing is hard

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  • Know why testing
  • Know what to test
  • Know how to test
  • Know when to test

Bad test

=

Useless

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Effective testing is high reward

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Tests are your copilot

  • Low number of bugs
  • Delivering on time
  • Prevent over engineering

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Unit

vs

Integration

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Unit vs Integration:

The academic way

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Unit

  • Class or method level
  • More isolated
  • Developper oriented
  • Easy to setup
  • First ones to learn

Integration

  • Feature level
  • More abstract
  • Business oriented
  • Complex to setup

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Unit vs Integration:

The academic way

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What is the issue?

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Unit vs Integration:

The academic way

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We ain't at school

  • CEO / Manager decides
  • Rentability / on schedule is key

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Unit vs Integration:

The real world way

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Unit

  • More fragile so low productivity
  • Developper language
  • Lot of tests
  • Need to create testcases

Integration

  • More abstract so high productivity
  • Business language
  • Reduced number of tests
  • Based on project definition

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Unit vs Integration:

Start with integration

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Integration

  • Higher productivity
  • Business language (transparency)
  • Reduced number of tests
  • Ensure the feature is done

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Unit vs Integration:

Start with integration

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Unit

  • Integration test not possible
  • Still provides coverage
  • Ensure code is working
  • Can't ensure the feature is done

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How to test

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How to test:

Setup the environnement

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  • Setup a development env: wordpress/env
  • Setup integration tests:  wp-media/phpunit
  • Ease filter mocking: wp-launchpad/phpunit-wp-hooks
  • Create the base for integration tests

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How to test:

Create tests

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Now what?

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How to test:

What to test?

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Assert you made the job not work done

  • Testing your code: Useless
  • Testing expectations: Useful

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How to test:

What to test ?

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Test Driven Development

  • Really trendy
  • Really dogmatic
  • Better done than perfect

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How to test:

What to test ?

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Rome didn't built in one day

  • Learn gradually
  • TDD doctrines won't be followed strictly
  • You need to understand

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How to test:

What to test ?

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Most important in TDD

  • Write test before code: Keep candid mind
  • Make sure they fail before writing code: Useful code
  • Make sure all tests pass when writing code: Assert task done

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How to test:

What to test ?

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The utopy

  • Nice on paper
  • Issue is apply IRL

Issues

  • How to select the simplest test?
  • What is the quickest code?

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How to test:

Select simple test

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Acceptance criteria

  • Simple sentence asserting a behavior
  • Done by the person scoping the project
  • Ensure you are not testing your code

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How to test:

Select simple test

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What it is not

  • A video
  • A block of text
  • Code
- Image is preloaded using the image URLs 
from srcset attribute and becomes imagesrcset

- sizes="50vw" attribute is moved to the 
preload markup and becomes  imagesizes="50vw"

- fetchpriority="high" is added to the 
preload markup

- Image is excluded from LL feature

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How to test:

Gerkhin

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AAA

  • Arrange=Given
  • Act=When
  • Assert=Then
GIVEN image with srcset "http://my-image.example/img.png" 
WHEN the image is preloaded 
THEN image have imagesrcset "http://my-image.example/img.png" 
AND no srcset 

GIVEN image with sizes "50vw" 
WHEN the image is preloaded 
THEN image have imagesizes "50vw" 
AND no sizes

GIVEN an image 
WHEN the image is preloaded 
THEN image have fetchpriority "high"

GIVEN an image 
WHEN the image is preloaded 
THEN image is excluded from lazyload

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How to test:

Build around Acceptance criteria

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Find limits

  • Failing HTTP request
  • Issue while inserting DB
GIVEN image with srcset "http://my-image.example/img.png" 
WHEN the image is preloaded 
THEN image have imagesrcset "http://my-image.example/img.png" 
AND no srcset 

GIVEN image with sizes "50vw" 
WHEN the image is preloaded 
THEN image have imagesizes "50vw" 
AND no sizes

GIVEN an image 
WHEN the image is preloaded 
THEN image have fetchpriority "high"

GIVEN an image 
WHEN the image is preloaded 
THEN image is excluded from lazyload

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How to test:

Structure a test

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AAA

  • Arrange: put the plugin in a certain state
  • Act: run the logic to test
  • Assert: verify the plugin is in the expected state
<?php 

class Test_Logout extends TestCase {
    public function testLogoutShouldNotEdit()
    {
    	do_action(
        'grant_admin',
        wp_current_user()
        );
        
    	do_action('logout');
        
        $this->assertSame(
        	false,
        	apply_filters(
            'user_can_edit',
            false
            )
        );
    
    }
}

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How to test:

Find the quickest code

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Cheating is ok

  • You are testing on fixed data
  • What matters is the final output

Make baby steps

  • Checking one condition
  • You can edit previous tests

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Usual testing scenarios

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How to test:

Adapt to usual cases

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Scenarios

  • Unleash CQRS power
  • Control filter value
  • Mock external API
  • Isolate callback

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How to test:

Unleash CQRS power

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Problem

Need to re-implement a way to interact with the element for each test

Solution

Use action and filter to cut your logic into small units

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How to test:

Unleash CQRS power

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Solution

Use action and filter to cut your logic into small units

<?php 

class Test_Logout extends TestCase {
    public function testLogoutShouldNotEdit()
    {
    	do_action(
        'grant_admin',
        wp_current_user()
        );
        
    	do_action('logout');
        
        $this->assertSame(
        	false,
        	apply_filters(
            'user_can_edit',
            false
            )
        );
    
    }
}

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How to test:

Control filter value

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Problem

Need control flow to direct the test into a certain state

Solution

Mock the filter with a callback function

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How to test:

Control filter value

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Solution

Mock the filter with a callback function

<?php 

class Test_Logout extends TestCase {
    public function testLogoutShouldNotEdit()
    {
      ...
    }
    
    /**
    * @hook my_filter 10
    */
    public function my_callback() {
    	return true;
    }
}

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How to test:

Mock external API

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Problem

The code call an external API and there is no control about it

Solution

Use wp_remote_request and mock the filter with a callback function

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How to test:

Mock external API

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Solution

Use wp_remote_request and mock the filter with a callback function

<?php 

class Test_Logout extends TestCase {
    public function testLogoutShouldNotEdit()
    {
      ...
    }
    
    /**
    * @hook pre_http_request 10
    */
    public function my_callback($response, $args, $url) {
   
   		if ( 
        	strpos(
            	$url,
                'https://app.imagify.io' ) === false
            ) {
			return $response;
		}
   
    	return [
          'body' => $message,
          'response' => ['code' => 200 ]
        ];
    }
}

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How to test:

Isolate callback

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Problem

The callback to test is linked to an hook with lot of callbacks making lot of noise

Solution

Isolate the callback by removing all other callbacks

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How to test:

Isolate callback

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Solution

Isolate the callback by removing all other callbacks

<?php 

class Test_Logout extends TestCase {
    /**
    * @isolate-hook my-event myCallback 15
    **/
    public function testLogoutShouldNotEdit()
    {
    	// ...
    }
}

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Any question?

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Time for an example

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Time for an example

The context

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Objectives

  • Add result to API
  • Save into DB
  • Add a job to queue

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Time for an example

The context

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Objectives

  • Fetch result from API
  • Save into DB

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Time for an example

The context

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Acceptance criterion

  • GIVEN no tracking row WHEN job added to Sauron THEN tracking job should be pending AND a job should be created to check result

  • GIVEN tracking row WHEN job added to Sauron THEN tracking job should be updated to pending AND a job should be created to check result

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Time for an example

The context

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Acceptance criterion

  • GIVEN no tracking row WHEN job fails to be added to Sauron THEN tracking job should be failed AND no job should be created to check result

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Time for an example

The context

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Complete cases:

  • Fail add API:

    • 5xx

    • 4xx

  • Fail add db

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Time for an example

The context

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Acceptance criterion

  • GIVEN no tracking row and no job WHEN job fetched from Sauron THEN tracking job should be failed 

  • GIVEN tracking row and no job WHEN job fetch from Sauron THEN tracking job should be updated to failed

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Time for an example

The context

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Acceptance criterion

  • GIVEN no tracking row and job pending WHEN job fetched from Sauron THEN tracking job should be pending and a new job should be created 

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Time for practice

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