Feb. CIDUG Meeting 02-12-15: SimpleTest and Drupal at Ames Public Library

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Posted by jrearick on February 9, 2015 at 3:22pm
Start: 
2015-02-12 19:00 - 21:00 America/Chicago
Organizers: 
meustrus
AnnGreazel
jrearick
Event type: 
User group meeting

SimpleTest Unit Testing for PHP logo

The testing framework of choice in the Drupal community is SimpleTest. Drupal core comes with support for SimpleTest. Joseph (Meustrus) will show us how SimpleTest is used in Drupal and how you might use it when developing your own modules.

LOCATION

We have another new location this month! We will be meting at:

Ames Public Library
Dale H. Ross Board Room
515 Douglas Ave.
Ames, IA 50010

Map: https://goo.gl/maps/Ff7KP

As always, the first hour of the meeting is open discussion/question time. If you have a question, learned something cool, or would like to bounce ideas around with others, please come and share!

Please do sign up so you get a reminder the day before!

See you there!

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Thanks!

Posted by meustrus on February 9, 2015 at 4:36pm
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Thanks for posting the event! FYI I am meustrus, also known outside the internet as Joseph Schwartz currently working at Iowa Workforce Development. I look forward to our gathering!

Follow up

Posted by meustrus on February 16, 2015 at 10:48pm
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As a follow up, a couple of things we didn't get to about running tests:

  1. You can run tests from the command line using the run-tests.sh shell script included with Drupal in the "scripts" directory. You can also use the Drush command drush run-tests. This is typically how you would integrate running tests into a larger release management system like Jenkins.
  2. The web page that runs the tests may not continue to the results page unless it has focus. This is why during the presentation, one run of the tests took much longer than Drupal claimed; I did not maintain focus on the window for more than a couple of seconds before switching back to the code.

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