Today we began the SimpleTest code sprint! This is an area of huge importance to Drupal, as one of our weaknesses has proven to be the number of testers we have, particularly how small that number is. Automated testing will provide an easy way to maintain the quality of core— each time a patch is created for core, it will be sent off to a testing server where the patch will be applied to a copy of the Drupal core and all the SimpleTests run on it. If there are failures, the patch would be marked as such and whoever submitted the patch would be forced to hang their head in shame.

What we accomplished today

Today, Dries Buytaert, Rok Žlender, Károly Négyesi, Jimmy Berry, Kevin Bridges, Douglas Hubler, Miglius Alaburda and I got together for 10 hours for the sole purpose of improving automated testing in core. It was great. We bounced ideas off one another, and came up with a great plan for unit testing with mock functions and classes without runkit. We made our test coverage tests work, although they are still running :). We gave a presentation to the people at Drupal Camp Paris on how to write basic functional tests for both core and contributed modules. We talked to Dries about the possibility of getting SimpleTest into core.

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