I think my session has more in common with Mike Naberezny’s talk at OSCON. The video will be coming out, but you’ll probably realize that Mike knows more than me on the subject. I am just guessing, but you can compare and contrast.
My focus was to get more people to build test cases for the Automattic WordPress Tests automated test suite, which focuses more on integration testing (what I commonly call functional testing, albeit inaccurately, but it is a habit).
I look forward to slides for Mike’s talk, which hopefully is released afterwards. I’ll like to be able to go next year, if another testing methodology presentation is given. I’ve been learning about automated testing for the past year and what the different methods can offer. I hope to graduate to understand what smoke tests and all of the other testing that Mozilla does. It would be interesting to apply those methods to other projects of mine and find out whether or not the quality improves.
My hope is that such a talk won’t be needed again next year, because WordPress would have finally grown up and completed several Quality Assurance projects. It would be nice to not have to read how poorly written the application I use is, because then I feel as if they are somehow implying that my code is also bad.
As an aside, when did Planet PHP syndicate, so many great blogs? Wow, just wow.
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