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Parallel Docker builds for the wp-browser project – 03

This post is the third in a series; find the first one here and the second one here.

In this series, I’m documenting the steps to add parallel, container-based, builds to the wp-browser project.

To set expectations: as a result of this research and effort, I might add a container-dedicated command to wp-browser in the future, but this is not my primary goal now. My main goal is being able to run…

Parallel Docker builds for the wp-browser project – 02

This post is the second in a series, and you can find the first one here.

In my previous post I’ve written code that would work on my machine, a Mac OS machine. To make this of any value, to myself and others, I want to spend some time trying to make the simple setup I have work with Windows and Linux too. Since PHPStormand similar IDEs are widely available on all platforms, the part I need to…

Parallel Docker builds for the wp-browser project – 01

The problem

In a perfect world, tests should “fail fast”. Failing “fast” means the tests should fail as soon as possible, providing me enough feedback to go back, fix the code, and try again. As the volume of tests and test suites mounts, this proposition is far removed from the seconds-long run time of unit tests to move into the minutes-long run time of multiple acceptance suites. Even worse: at…

Handling network activation of plugins in WordPress integration tests. A missing piece The WPLoader module part of wp-browser is a wrapper around WordPress PHPUnit based automated testing suite and as such it inherits its inner workings. As the underlying suite the module allows tests to run in the context of a multisite installation setting its multisite option to true: class_name:…

WP CLI wp-browser package added to the package index

The wp-browser based WP CLI package is now in the official package list. Fresh off the press Yesterday the wp-browser based wp-cli package was added to the official package index. I’ve updated the testing instructions to reflect that and the good news is that all it will take to install is the one line command below: wp package install lucatume/wpcli-wpbrowser-tests More usage instructions here.…

What’s next for wp-browser?

What’s going to be in wp-browser (and its ecosphere) next versions. WP-CLI package My side project of a wp-cli wp-browser specific command moves on; at this point scaffolding plugin tests requires no more effort that typing: wp wpb-scaffold plugin-tests Working on it led to the development of an interactive mode for the wpcept command and explicit theme testing support; with those pieces done…

Explicit theme support in wp-browser 1.18

Support for WordPress themes built into wp-browser. The problem I’ve mulled over the possibility to add explicit theme support to wp-browser for quite some time but have always snoozed the thought knowing theme testing has been possible for a long time. I’ve recently been asked 3 times in a week how to do it and that’s probably a signal that’s not as intuitive as I thought. Local config solution…

WPBrowser interactive bootstrap out

WPBrowser new interactive bootstrap process is good enough to ship. A long work I’ve started working on wp-browser interactive bootstrap some 1 month and a half ago as a requirement for the work on the wp-cli wp-browser based test scaffolding command and, in a way not dissimilar to nested function calls, I’m shipping it first. There is not much to say about the feature per se but that it tries to…