Articles tagged with "Testing"

Part 3: Using other scripts, datasources and directories

Earlier I described a bit about the scope of the project and how careful planning would be needed to keep the project growing smoothly. One result of this is our test template - a basic test script outline which most scripts should stick to - which makes test scripts easier to update because they all follow the same structure (yay standardisation!).

The template neatly gets most of the key setup/config variables from a config file in the utilities folder. This, though, was harder to get going than we thought thanks to...

##Part 2: Setting up for a large project

When you take on a project it's a good idea to make sure you plan ahead. Testing platforms only remain useful as long as they're considered dependable - if it becomes too difficult to write tests which don't reliably execute you might as well not bother.

Here are a few key things I set up at the start to help the project along, which have all been hugely worthwhile investments:

1. A sensible directory structure.

It sounds like an obvious thing, but I had 25 content types to start with, and...

A quick introduction

A few months ago I started my first project with CasperJS and PhantomCSS, and what an interesting experience it has been working through that to now our second, larger, automated testing setup. Being young projects, there are some fun quirks and niggles in CasperJS and PhantomCSS that I wish the world could have warned me about.

I'm working on an automated testing rig that will politely inform our team members when they inadvertently break certain designs or content functionality. The design side involves using CasperJS to go to a set of test pages, then having PhantomCSS...