[development] Drupal, SimpleTest and Continuous Integration

[Steven Jones]

Hi Yannick,

Are you using SimpleTest or Drupal's SimpleTest? I'm not sure of the
exact differences myself, but I know that they are not the same thing.

As for using continuous integration there a number of scattered
articles/resources around the place, and it seems that a lot of people
using Drupal like the Hudson CI engine (myself included).

Here are a few I can think of:
Paris presentation:
http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/continuous-integration-and-drupal
Getting Simpletest results into Hudson:
http://www.computerminds.co.uk/hudson-and-simpletest
http://www.lullabot.com/drupal-voices/drupal-voices-52-stew-robinson-continuous-integration-deployment-economistcom
http://www.archive.org/download/DrupalCampUK/ScalingDrupalDevelopment_512kb.mp4

Regards
Steven Jones
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2009/11/22 Yannick Warnier <ywarnier at beeznest.org>:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm the lead developer of a GPL e-learning system called Dokeos, and
> occasional contributor to the Dokeos-Drupal module [1].
>
> A few (12) months ago, we (Dokeos team) had to choose between PHPUnit
> and SimpleTest to cover our system with unit tests. As the Drupal
> community was in the same situation at that time, only a few weeks
> ahead, we decided to follow and chose SimpleTest.
>
> Unit Testing is not our final goal, and we want to implement something
> like Xinc [2] or PHPUnderControl [3] to have Continuous Integration, as
> it's called (a way to check when new code introduces regressions,
> basically).
>
> However, both seem to support better PHPUnit (I haven't tried
> PHPUnderControl, but I have broken a few teeth on SimpleTest + Phing +
> Xinc already, mainly because of conflicting versions of SimpleTest and
> complexity of the configuration files for Xinc).
>
> To get to the point, I would like to know if anybody has already
> configured that type of combination in the context of Drupal and would
> be so kind as to give me a link to some kind of report, examples or
> plain documentation about this.
>
> In any case, I will be looking at the problem myself (so far it's been
> only team members) and report here if it works, so it can be used with
> Drupal too (but the question is more like if Drupal has a few weeks in
> advance on our investigation there as well).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Yannick
>
> [1] http://drupal.org/project/Dokeos
> [2] http://code.google.com/p/xinc/ (LGPL)
> [3] http://www.phpundercontrol.org/about.html (not OSI license)
>
>