testing

Testing Drupal with Cypress in Docker

Kevin — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:00:35 GMT

Testing Drupal with Cypress in Docker

In a previous post, I discussed how to use custom cookies on Pantheon and how to provide a browser based functional test using the WebDriverTestBase class from Drupal 8.

While it worked great, these tests can be a bit of a bear to get up and running locally. Installing Selenium and chromedriver can be daunting and unwieldy and difficult to replicate across members of the team so they can write and run tests locally. Leveraging the same stack in CI can be an equal challenge.

Kevin February 24th, 2020

Creating a Custom Token in Drupal 8

Kevin — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 19:22:24 GMT

Creating a Custom Token in Drupal 8

Tokens represent an inline replacement when evaluating or rendering text. In Drupal, the Token module goes all the way back to Drupal 4.x and still exists today for Drupal 8 (and soon, Drupal 9).

Kevin February 3rd, 2020

Thoughtfully Updating Legacy Code

Kevin — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 20:15:33 GMT

Thoughtfully Updating Legacy Code

Earlier this month, a round of updates were made to a client site and deployed to production. A critical bug came in saying that donut charts in visualizations were now showing the wrong numbers and that this was a top priority since it was visible to the public.

Kevin December 30th, 2019

First Steps with Erlang (Update)

Kevin — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 12:00:00 GMT

First Steps with Erlang (Update)

Shortly after publishing my last post about Erlang, I noticed a bug in the code which would not have happened if I wrote unit test(s) first. I did not do that simply because I just started learning, and didn’t want too many barriers up front to getting started (its hard to write tests when you are learning new syntax and methodology).

Yet when I saw the bug, I couldn’t let that slide, as here again is another reinforcement of having tests. So I opened the project back up, pretended I have no awareness of the bug, and went from there.

Kevin November 2nd, 2018

Adding Tests to Legacy Drupal 7 Sites

Kevin — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 12:00:00 GMT

Adding Tests to Legacy Drupal 7 Sites

Most developers at some point or another will inevitably need to add custom code to a site. In Drupal, this could be anything from extending core functionality, altering forms, or creating entirely new functionality.

Kevin October 29th, 2018