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Drupal 10 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen
Book Image

Drupal 10 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen

Overview of this book

This new and improved third edition cookbook is packed with the latest Drupal 10 features such as a new, flexible default frontend theme - Olivero, and improved administrative experience with a new theme - Claro. This comprehensive recipe book provides updated content on the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editing experience, improved core code performance, and code cleanup. Drupal 10 Development Cookbook begins by helping you create and manage a Drupal site. Next, you’ll get acquainted with configuring the content structure and editing content. You’ll also get to grips with all new updates of this edition, such as creating custom pages, accessing and working with entities, running and writing tests with Drupal, migrating external data into Drupal, and turning Drupal into an API platform. As you advance, you’ll learn how to customize Drupal’s features with out-of-the-box modules, contribute extensions, and write custom code to extend Drupal. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create and manage Drupal sites, customize them to your requirements, and build custom code to deliver your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Writing Automated Tests in Drupal

In previous chapters, we reviewed how to add custom functionality to Drupal with controllers, routes, responses, custom modules, custom entity types, hooks, and more. With even just a little bit of code, you can add a lot of functionality to your Drupal application.

But how do you know that it works? Sure, you can click around and try things out – but it is not a 100% guarantee that things are working under the hood as intended. The more code and features you add, the harder it will be to verify that existing functionality is still intact without providing tests.

By implementing automated tests, you can ensure that the code and features you have added actually work the way you expect. Most importantly, automated tests help significantly reduce bugs and regressions making it to your production website, which in turn will help build your confidence as a developer.

Drupal provides several classes of tools to help provide tests for your...