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Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide

By : Ian Wild, Jaswant Tak
Book Image

Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide

By: Ian Wild, Jaswant Tak

Overview of this book

The new and revamped Moodle is the top choice for developers to create cutting edge e-learning apps that cater to different user’s segments and are visually appealing as well. This book explains how the Moodle 3.x platform provides a framework that allows developers to create a customized e-learning solution. It begins with an exploration of the different types of plugin.. We then continue with an investigation of creating new courses. You will create a custom plugin that pulls in resources from a third-party repository. Then you’ll learn how users can be assigned to courses and granted the necessary permissions. Furthermore, you will develop a custom user home. At the end of the book, we’ll discuss the Web Services API to fully automate Moodle 3.x in real time.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
6
Managing Users - Letting in the Crowds

Testing


Testing is vital to the development of any new feature (in any software application), so it is important to outline the two main testing tools used by Moodle developers. They are as follows:

  • PHPUnit
  • Behat

PHPUnit can be considered technical testing, that is, does the feature do what it should? Behat is behavioral testing , that is, can a user achieve what they need given a particular intention? They sound similar, but the approaches are very different (hence the support of both types of testing).

In this appendix, we provide a basic outline of the features of each--enough to get you up and running. Luckily, there is plenty of support and advice available for both tools online. Check out the developer documentation at https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Testing for more details.