Joomla developers have consistently been a part of Joomla’s
testing, amending and extending its services not just now but since the Mambo
days. As with Joomla 1.5 the quality, efficiency and user experience has grown
in Joomla’s next version, 2.5, too.
Move to GitHub
Since moving to GitHub the Joomla programmers from all
around the world are aware of the developments made by other Joomla programmers
and Joomla developers too. For software development projects using Git Revision
control system GitHub can be used as a web-based hosting service.
Since these things have been taken care of, the next point
for the Joomla developers to steer concentration towards seems to be Automated
Testing.
Joomla’s
Unit Testing Method
Aspects of Joomla
developer
The requirements of the Joomla team for a Joomla developer
to become a Joomla tester are very minimal. If a Joomla programmer can commit
to the Joomla code base then that Joomla programmer can become a part of the
Joomla unit testing team.
Unit testing also works as a very important aid for a Joomla developer to build apart from being an efficient aspect of good Quality Control
Program. The Joomla programmer working on a module can enhance his/her focus on
the project using pre-meditated tests which will help in understanding the
upcoming problems.
Joomla programmers following this practice find it extremely
effortless to write smaller, more loosely coupled, more reusable, and more
maintainable code units and the advantages obtained through this mode of Unit
Testing is more effective than simply using it as a Quality Control tool.
Using this systematic method enables the Joomla programmer
to concentrate more on the requirements rather than focusing more on the
correctness of the module.
Benefits of Joomla
Unit Testing
When Joomla programmers are working on huge projects the
minuscule errors which cause unexpected changes on the whole cannot be
identified easily. To tackle this issue the process of unit testing is used. Unit
testing enables the Joomla programmers to identify these errors as it
highlights them prominently.
By using Unit Testing the parameters of the behavior of a
class can be defined clearly and with such well-defined classes fluctuation of
class parameters will be eradicated. With careful analysis of the design which
is a part of unit testing the flaws in the design can be identified early in
the development process, once this is done the Joomla developer need not keep
checking the inconsistencies in the design. The examples presented during Unit
Testing are numerous and using these examples the Joomla developers can study
and analyze the code.
Process of Unit
Testing in Joomla
Writing tests and developing Joomla content for the website
simultaneously or writing tests before developing the content can save a lot of
time for the Joomla developer or Joomla programmer and apart from that it
reduces the probability of regression too.
These Unit Tests conducted in a Joomla system starts from
testing individual units to testing the whole integrated system. Integrated
testing is a process of simulating an action which is anticipated by the Joomla
developer of the user to perform and this simulated action is checked with the
action which was expected by the Joomla developer. This is an ‘end-to-end’ type
of testing which can be used to test if all the parts of the application are
working.
Once individual units are tested the Joomla developers can
integrate two or more units together and test. While coupling these units they
have to be checked if there are any interactions between the units, unless
there are there is no point in checking them. If there are interactions between
these systems then the Joomla programmer can decide on an pre-meditated result
and check if the result obtained matches the anticipated one.
After Unit Testing is done the last step is to test the
whole system but by unit testing a larger system the effort of testing becomes
bigger than its uses. To tackle this difficulty the Integration Testing is
adopted. During this integrated testing mock objects are replaced, by the
Joomla developers, with real objects and their interactions are tested in the
top level.
These are the various types of testing adopted by Joomla
developers to ensure that the products being built are of expected standard and
quality.
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