testing

This week we'd like to release a new version of Pathauto for both Drupal 6 and 7. There have been numerous fixes for long-standing bugs with alias generation and internationalization. Oh and a few new features too (mostly in the 6.x-2.x and 7.x-1.x versions). As there have been quite a few changes made, we'd like your help testing either the 6.x-1.x-dev, 6.x-2.x-dev, or 7.x-1.x-dev versions.

Make sure when testing you have the latest development version of Token module downloaded as well.

Below are some of the major changes and bug fixes:

I am working on developing an accessibility checking module. Mostly this effort is to learn more about module development, but I am hoping that te module is helpful to others. The overview is that the module will provide a block with a list of links to good online accessibility testing sites. When a user clicks a link from any page on the site it will take them to the web-site of the testing tool they have selected.

A heads-up to my fellow developers. I ran into this problem on Lighty, but it probably is going to occur on all non-Apache server daemons, so I'm cross-posting this to the Nginx and IIS groups too.

Back in October, we had a 'Testing testing' discussion. Six (or so) local Drupal people met up. We talked about doing a testing-related event here in the Twin Cities.

Today is December 2, and seriously, no one is going to be able to do testing a testing event until the New Year. :)
But that's cool, because I am sure that most of us would put 'learn how to write tests' on our list of new years resolutions.

So let's get it over with first thing in 2010!

Does January 9 (Saturday) or January 10 (Sunday) work for people who might like to attend or host this event?

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE...

I have a client who has implemented employee training within Drupal and has had much success in showing who has accessed what pages... Now he has asked me to develop an automated testing process. I envision building a tool that will allow him to create tests for each class within a Course. Is there a recommended way using modules that will allow me to create an environment where he can create on-line tests per class? The student would take these tests online and he wants to give them immediate feedback on-line after it is submitted.

Thanks for your ideas!

We're Drupal.org/NOVA members and a local (NOVA/DC) based hosting company.

Members are the group are invited to contact us if you need staging or production space on one of our dedicated servers in order to develop/test Drupal configurations.

We're always busy and not able to attend the meetings so we feel this is the best way to show our support!

Hola,

Me olvidé de mencionarlo hasta ahora que lo estoy preparando, pero esta tarde tenemos la reunión bi-mensual de PHP Perú en las oficinas de Dokeos, para los que tienen demasiado energía. Estaremos creando pruebas para el lenguaje PHP mismo (versión 5.3) y estaré explicando lo que es phing y como usarlo.

Yannick

Hi all,

I've been working on a patch to the CCK multigroup module that I feel it's almost there. It needs as much testing as possible however. If you think you may need this feature, then please help testing, so maybe it can be included in the next release of CCK2, which I don't know because it depends on the CCK maintainers, but getting this tested, will help.

Several core tests (contact, comment, poll) have a need to be to adjust the permissions for anonymous users. We can easily adjust permissions for users by calling drupalCreateUser() with different permissions, but we don't have an easy way to do the same thing for anonymous users. As of now, the tests have to add an admin user with the permission 'administer user permissions' and use drupalPost() to adjust the admin/user/permissions page. This implementation is ugly and wasting effort by duplication.

Since we provide the drupalCreateUser() and drupalCreateRole() methods in DrupalWebTestCase, I proposed adding a drupalSetPermissions() that could be easily reused throughout core tests and would be very handy for a lot of contrib module tests. But it needs more reviews.

I am writing a test for one of my contrib modules that has a feature that is enabled when another contrib module (we'll call it OtherModule) is enabled. I want other people other than myself to be able to run the entire test suite, but what if they didn't have OtherModule installed or even present in their Drupal installation? The test is going to fail spectacularly in that case. So here's what I came up with for my module: