Tag Archives: Unittests

Using Assertions with (Legacy) PHP Code

Posted on 4 Sep 2017 by hakre

While it was not much advised to use assertions (the assert PHP language construct) prior to PHP 7 due to the fact that it actually eval’ed a string’ed code, these days are gone. This is probably a lesser known fact with … Continue reading →

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The Sky. The Universe. The Missing Unit Tests

Posted on 14 Aug 2013 by hakre

Out there in the Universe. Now comparisons get Epic Pictures when it comes to WordPress and Unit Tests: Beta Sagittae. via The Loop. Reminded me of Development By The Numbers – Slides (May 2013; by ircmaxell) having also nice comparisons … Continue reading →

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New Trac Report: {37} Needs Unit Tests [UPDATED]

Posted on 16 May 2010 by hakre

For the upcomming 3.0 Release there are still some tickets open, but it looks like this is getting closer to release. I just stumbled over a new report, that is listing all with the tag needs-unit-tests. The funny thing about … Continue reading →

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Cross-Plattform interoperability of the Test Suite

Posted on 11 Jan 2010 by hakre

Closer to get it going: The wordpress test suite just got a patch to better support windows and some other systems. The next thing to do is to actually fix those tests that use functions which just die. Calling die() while … Continue reading →

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