In recent months I've been demoing visual monitoring to many developers. The reaction was always positive, but I've realized that not enough people have taken the step from recognizing the need to actually implementing it on their own projects.

If you have been following my recent blog posts or tweets you've probably noticed we are trying to bring visual monitoring along with Shoov to the masses. To do so we're trying to reduce the complexity and codify our "lessons learned".

Drupal.org visually monitored by Shoov

Yeoman generators is one way to achieve this. With the new yo shoov - a single command makes sure all the files needed for visual monitoring are immediately scaffolded in your repository. In fact, it also sets up Behat tests along with a .shoov.yml that will allow Shoov to run your visual monitoring tests periodically.

Since visual monitoring might be new for a lot of people, the generator not only scaffolds the files but also attempts to check if your system is properly installed, and tells you how to fix it if not.

Shoov generator in action.

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