Reasoning behind automated testing with a WordPress plugin as an example. Very mild exposure to bears.

2. HOW TESTING
CHANGED MY LIFE
Nikolay bachiyski, automattic
Wordcamp san francisco, aug 13, 2011

3. Next
30 minutes

4. 0. what?

5. 1. example
plugin

6. 2. do it yourself!

7. what?

8. 0. what?
Automated
http://www.flickr.com/photos/binaryape/4882162452/

9. xUnit
0. what?

10. PHPUnit
http://www.phpunit.de/manual/current/en/
0. what?

11. class WP_Is_Email_Test extends WP_UnitTestCase {
function test_is_email_only_letters_with_dot_com_domain() {
$this-­‐>assertEquals( 'nb@nikolay.com', is_email( 'nb@nikolay.com' ) );
}
function test_is_email_should_not_allow_missing_tld() {
$this-­‐>assertFalse( is_email( 'nb@nikolay' ) );
}
function test_is_email_should_allow_bg_domain() {
$this-­‐>assertEquals( 'nb@nikolay.bg', is_email( 'nb@nikolay.bg' ) );
}
}
0. what?

12. class WP_Is_Email_Test extends WP_UnitTestCase {
function test_is_email_only_letters_with_dot_com_domain() {
$this-­‐>assertEquals( 'nb@nikolay.com', is_email( 'nb@nikolay.com' ) );
}
function test_is_email_should_not_allow_missing_tld() {
$this-­‐>assertFalse( is_email( 'nb@nikolay' ) );
}
function test_is_email_should_allow_bg_domain() {
$this-­‐>assertEquals( 'nb@nikolay.bg', is_email( 'nb@nikolay.bg' ) );
}
}
0. what?

13. 0. what?

14. Example Plugin
WP_Bearify

15. do it yourself!
2. do it yourself!

16. Grab the
Framework
https://github.com/nb/wordpress-tests
soon in core
2. do it yourself!

17. Please, read
http://xunitpatterns.com/
at least Narratives:
http://xunitpatterns.com/Book
%20Outline.html
2. do it yourself!

18. PHPUnit
http://www.phpunit.de/manual/current/en/
2. do it yourself!

19. PHPUnit in your
editor
https://github.com/meritt/phpunit-tmbundle/
https://github.com/klokane/vim-phpunit
2. do it yourself!

21. FEAR!

22. FEAR!

23. http://www.flickr.com/photos/eebrierley/5394195199/

24. warm & cozy > FEAR