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Testing Drupal modules with Travis CI on Github

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This is the first time that I am working with automated tests. I have written tests before and and of course I believe that tests improve projects dramatically, but I have never had (/made) the time in a project to actually do it. So I was quite excited to get started with travis.

First things first, what do you test!?

I was terribly excited to start working with tests, but yesterday we didn't actually have any code to test against yet, so instead we decided, we actually want to run the drupal core tests. We want our module to be enabled, and to test know if any of our code causes a Drupal core regression, so I started with that.

Trial and Error (a lot)...

Travis build history logs showing eventually passing tests ​Travis build history logs showing eventually passing tests.

The documentation is pretty good and there are LOADS of example .travis.yml files floating around, so I started to just get an active environment build working and focused on getting php unit tests working first. I only wanted a couple of tests to run and the main thing I cared about was that drupal installed properly and that the environment was up and running. Eventually I got a passing build with the following .travis.yml

While I was really quite happy with this, I wanted more. Simpletests to say the least, and maybe even behat tests. I found a lot of inspiration when looking at BartFeenstra's (Xano on d.o) Currency module: https://github.com/bartfeenstra/drupal-currency/blob/8.x-3.x/.travis.yml
Most importantly, I found Drupal TI - https://github.com/LionsAd/drupal_ti

Drupal TI

This project makes it almost trivial to integrate Drupal Projects with Travis. It handles a lot of the setup in terms of MYSQL, Drupal download and how to start running tests. It managed to reduce my .travis.yml to the following:

This is quite a bit of code, but it is really clean and well commented so we can clearly see what is going on.

When to test?

So now there are tests... Great! But when do we run them? Running all of Drupal's tests can take quite some time, but we do want to have a check on development to catch things. So in short we need testing on pull requests between individual development repos (eg https://github.com/yanniboi/decoupled_auth) and the main project repo (https://github.com/FreelyGive/decoupled_auth) but when we are doing our development we only really care about project specific tests.

Seeing tests on GitHub

When I create a pull request now, I automatically have the tests run and the results on the pull request:

GitHub pull request GitHub pull request with Travis test results

Travis summary GitHub pull request test results in Travis CI

Eventually what we really want to do, is have a way of checking inside our .travis.yml, if the test has been started by a pull request, or by a code push/merge and run different parameters depending on that. But more about that next time. There will be a blog post on that soon...

In the meantime, use Travis and write tests :)

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