Developing Extensions for Joomla! 5

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Testing Your Extensions

When starting any software development project, we usually focus on our current environment (at the time of writing this book, we’re focusing on Joomla! 5 and PHP 8.2 as our environment). But as the world around us evolves, our environment keeps updating and we need to be sure that our projects work with the new requirements. We will have a new release of PHP that will be more efficient and we need to detect new issues and incompatibilities in our code. Testing our software becomes a key aspect for medium and long-term projects.

In this chapter, we will explore some options for automatically testing our Joomla! development projects. We will go from basic unit testing to more exhaustive system testing and end this chapter ...