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title: TDD - Test Driven Drupal
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url: https://www.oliverdavies.uk/talks/tdd-test-driven-drupal
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tags: [drupal, drupal-8, testing, php]
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Testing is important. Why? It allows developers to add new features and edit and
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refactor existing code without the worry of adding regressions, reduces the
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reliance on manual testing to discover bugs, and by taking a test driven
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approach, your implementation code is leaner as you only write what is needed
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for your tests to pass.
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Drupal 7 includes the SimpleTest module for unit and functional testing, whilst
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Drupal 8 also includes and supports PHPUnit - the defacto PHP testing framework,
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used by other PHP projects including Symfony and Laravel - making it easier for
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people to test their code. And with testing being one of the Drupal core gates
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with tests needing to be included with every new feature or bug fix, and core’s
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100% pass rate policy, testing has become an essential skill when contributing
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to core, or when working on your own projects.
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In this talk, we’ll cover the methodology and terminology involved with
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automated testing, and then take a test driven approach to creating a new Drupal
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module.
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