The General Way of WordPress Development

This tutorial describes how to make a simple WordPress plugin using using General Chicken’s General Way of WordPress development.

There are two test suites in the General Way framework: acceptance and unit tests. Generally, acceptance tests are tests where an actual browser like Chrome is launched. Unit tests, are tests are run in memory without a browser.

Acceptance Test Suite

  • uses an SQL dump file to reset the database before each run
  • launches an actual browser
  • uses Selenium to simulate the actions of a user
  • slow

Unit Test Suite

  • loads blank WordPress installation into memory
  • uses the WPTestCase methods
  • fast
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
  1. Basic WordPress TDD / BDD with Codeception
  2. Your first WordPress Codeception "cept" acceptance test
  3. Your first WordPress Codeception "cest" unit test
  4. Understanding WordPress Codeception configuration files

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