Testing

Articles about software testing strategies, including PHPUnit, browser testing, and test-driven development.

Automatic updates for Magento
Coding tips, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integration, Cypress, Deployer, End-2-End Testing, GitHub Actions, Magento 2, Magento 2 testing, Testing, Playwright

Say goodbye to manual updates make: Magento update automatically

Tired of managing Magento updates manually? Learn how to automate updates and streamline your Magento store's maintenance with our step-by-step guide. Say goodbye to the headaches of manual updates and keep your store secure and up-to-date effortlessly.
October 31st, 2024
Testing email sending Magento 2
Magento 2, Testing, Integration test

Testing the email sending in Magento 2

Sending emails in Magento is a huge PITA. But testing if an email actually is sent, and checking the contents, is actually quite simple.
October 10th, 2022
Testing Magento 2 extensions in continuous integration
Magento 2, Continuous Integration, Integration test, Testing

Testing Magento 2 extensions in a continuous integration pipeline

As you might know, I like to write code that is tested. Now, writing tests in Magento can be quite hard, but running your tests in a continuous integration pipeline can be even harder. It is even harder to test standalone Magento 2 extensions in a continuous integration pipeline.
July 21st, 2020
Laravel, Testing, Queue

Testing jobs in Laravel

Recently someone in a Slack channel i’m a member of asked the following:I want to test if job A fires job B, but how do you test something like that?Niek ten HoopenEspecially when the queue is set up to be run asychronus this seems impossible to test. The normal flow would be something like this:
July 15th, 2019
Continuous Integration, Integration test, Magento, Magento 2, Testing

Debugging the Magento 2 integration test setup

You might have been at the same point where i have been a few times: You want to start with integration tests on an existing Magento 2 store. You follow the steps to setup your IDE, start the first test and wait. After a while you get one of these nasty non descriptive errors:
May 8th, 2019
Magento 2, Testing

Swapping instances in the object manager

Coming up next week is MageTestFest. For the last ~2 years I have been doing a lot with testing and Magento, and I think this is awesome. In that spirit I decided to write this blogpost down.
November 9th, 2017
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