Agenda

We'll touch on Selenium and Simpletest, but those tools are covered in greater depth in other sessions. Our goal is to take a more holistic approach, covering such topics as:

• Why is spending time (and money) on quality assurance good for business?
• Using source code control and multisite effectively to manage Development, QA and Live sites
• The importance of client-generated User Stories as additional functional specification for development and as success criteria during testing
• When are simpletests - and other regression testing frameworks - an essential part of development?
• What forms of documentation help ensure the success of a project?
• What is the cost of using modules that are new to a developer?
• How should the custom vs. generic (and contributed back) code choice be made, and what are it's impacts on long term quality?
• What are some specific pitfalls that Drupal has that should be avoided? (And how can they be implemented in a safe way?)

Goals

The basic goal is to raise awareness and share tools and techniques that will improve the quality of Drupal-based development.

Resources

• session: Intro to SimpleTest
• session: Automated testing of javascript and/or thirdy-party apps using Selenium
• session: Usability testing at the University of Baltimore
• groups.drupal.org/quality-assurance

Speakers

Fen Labalme and Nathaniel Catchpole have spent years working to improve the quality of the sites they work on. We plan to invite another two or three key people to participate in this open round-table discussion.