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I started to learn about automated testing in 2012 when I took over maintainership of the Drupal module, Override Node Options.<\/p>\n\n
At the time, it had around 9,000 active installations (now more than 35,000), and I was concerned about breaking those sites if I pushed a bug and wanted confidence to make changes without introducing regressions.<\/p>\n\n
Later, I started to learn about test-driven development and how to develop and design software by writing the tests first.<\/p>\n\n
Although I'm not a Laravel Developer, Adam Wathan's \"Test Driven Laravel\" course was a great resource and information, as well as a number of presentations and talks at PHP meetups and conferences.<\/p>\n\n
Once I understood how to write tests and do TDD, I took any opportunity to practice it, whether on projects or coding katas.<\/p>\n\n
At one point, I was writing module code during work hours and writing tests for it during the evening.<\/p>\n\n
How did you learn automated testing or test-driven development? Reply to this email and let me know.<\/p>\n\n
Bonus points if it was at one of my conference talks or workshops!<\/p>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n
I started to learn about automated testing in 2012 when I took over maintainership of the Drupal module, Override Node Options.<\/p>\n\n
At the time, it had around 9,000 active installations (now more than 35,000), and I was concerned about breaking those sites if I pushed a bug and wanted confidence to make changes without introducing regressions.<\/p>\n\n
Later, I started to learn about test-driven development and how to develop and design software by writing the tests first.<\/p>\n\n
Although I'm not a Laravel Developer, Adam Wathan's \"Test Driven Laravel\" course was a great resource and information, as well as a number of presentations and talks at PHP meetups and conferences.<\/p>\n\n
Once I understood how to write tests and do TDD, I took any opportunity to practice it, whether on projects or coding katas.<\/p>\n\n
At one point, I was writing module code during work hours and writing tests for it during the evening.<\/p>\n\n
How did you learn automated testing or test-driven development? Reply to this email and let me know.<\/p>\n\n
Bonus points if it was at one of my conference talks or workshops!<\/p>\n\n ", "summary": null } ], "feeds_item": [ { "imported": "1970-01-01T00:33:45+00:00", "guid": null, "hash": "e96f6c60d2ba5103f1f830ef50fc6fb2", "target_type": "feeds_feed", "target_uuid": "90c85284-7ca8-4074-9178-97ff8384fe76" } ] }