[development] Simpletest: embrace and utilize

[Darrel O'Pry]

Robert Douglass wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> in very recent history I was faced with a set of programming problems 
> that I was having a seriously difficult time handling. The 
> architecture of my upcoming Solr module had gotten away from me, and 
> every effort I made to reel it in and bring it under control was 
> leading to dead ends and broken code. The way that I finally got out 
> of the mess was by installing the Simpletest module and writing test 
> cases for the functionality I needed. The act of codifying the 
> expected behavior of every unit of the module helped me get over the 
> hump and write code that works. Furthermore, the more test cases I 
> produced, the faster the development proceeded. Code began to write 
> itself (almost).
>
> So I've now written an article on unit testing and Simpletest: 
> http://www.lullabot.com/articles/introduction-unit-testing
>
> I want to thank Moshe, Rok, and all the others who have worked on this 
> code for so long, with so little praise. I hope that now the mass of 
> Drupal developers will start to wake up to the potential of writing 
> test cases and dig in.
>
> http://drupal.org/project/simpletest
>
>
> -Robert
I agree with Robert here... When you start getting a lot of 
functionality in a single module and start re-engineering it, simpletest 
is a life saver, just for catching your oversights.