Functional Testing Simplified: Using Behat with WordPress

WordPress sites are being asked to do more and more complex tasks. What used to be purely a blogging platform is now being used for e-commerce, breaking news, online magazine publishing and more. The question arises, after a site is released, how do we insure that new features don’t break existing features? Further, how do we make sure that new processes don’t make development too cumbersome? Enter Behat, a behavior driven testing framework and it’s WordPress specific implementation: WordHat. Using simple, story driven language, Behat makes writing tests simple. I’ll talk about how WordHat can be used to implement simple functional automated testing on your complex WordPress sites.

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