{"id":936,"date":"2016-05-15T02:27:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T02:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=936"},"modified":"2016-06-23T00:51:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T00:51:36","slug":"catching-regressions-faster-with-automated-acceptance-tests","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/session\/catching-regressions-faster-with-automated-acceptance-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching regressions faster with automated acceptance tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"speaker-avatar\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"grav-339dd51a7f4959a90d50ebffcbfa8c8e-0\" class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/339dd51a7f4959a90d50ebffcbfa8c8e?s=200&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" \/><\/div>\n<p>By mimicking user flow and interactions, acceptance testing plays a key role in catching any kind regressions in someone&#8217;s plugin or theme. In this presentation, I will show how to write acceptance tests using a very simple little framework called Codeception and how someone can automate those tests using a continuous integration server such as Travis CI.<\/p>\n<p><strong> User level<\/strong>: Intermediate developer, Advanced developer<\/p>\n<p><strong> Prerequisites<\/strong>: People should be familiar with PHP and the command line.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Slides:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanbardo.com\/2016\/06\/wc-ottawa-catching-regressions-faster-with-automated-acceptance-tests\/\">https:\/\/jonathanbardo.com\/2016\/06\/wc-ottawa-catching-regressions-faster-with-automated-acceptance-tests\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By mimicking user flow and interactions, acceptance testing plays a key role in catching any kind regressions in someone&#8217;s plugin or theme. In this presentation, I will show how to write acceptance tests using a very simple little framework called &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/session\/catching-regressions-faster-with-automated-acceptance-tests\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Catching regressions faster with automated acceptance tests<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11551004,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1463277600,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"https:\/\/jonathanbardo.com\/2016\/06\/wc-ottawa-catching-regressions-faster-with-automated-acceptance-tests\/","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[934],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[118835],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-936","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-code-creators"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79zQK-f6","session_date_time":{"date":"May 15, 2016","time":"2:00 am"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"934","slug":"jonathan-bardo","name":"Jonathan Bardo","link":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker\/jonathan-bardo\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/936\/revisions\/1637"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/934"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/jonathanbardo"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}