Use Drupal 8 functional testing with Drupal 7

Drupal 8 will make it easier to write automated tests with real browser capabilities, like JavaScript and CSS influenced visibility of page elements. Something Drupal 7 does not have out of the box. But websites don't have to migrate to Drupal 8 to use its functional testing best practices. Enjoy the future today.

We follow up on last year's session about The Future of Drupal Functional Testing but with a more hands-on session, applied to Drupal 7. 

In this session you'll learn about:

• PageObject pattern
• DrupalDriver, a collection of drivers for controlling Drupal
• PHPUnit testing framework 
• Selenium Webdriver
• BrowserStack automate

And how to combine them to do all the functional automated testing you need.

Also some advise on:

• Which things to tests?
• How much coverage you need?
• How to ensure tests get written?
• How to handle random failures?

Things we learned from working on automated test coverage (500+ tests) for the Paddle Drupal 7 distribution for 2 years now, and keeping an eye on how Drupal 8 plans to tackle that.

• How to use Behat with Drupal 8 
• Principles of Solitary Unit Testing
• Writing Unit tests with PHPUnit
• Layered testing strategies
• Adding Durability with Automated Testing and Deployments
• Why Your Test Suite Sucks