Start:
2020-02-21 18:00 USA/Vienna
Event type:
Online meeting (eg. IRC meeting)
As part of the PHPUnit initiative a considerable part of Simpletests will be converted to PHPUnit based browser tests on February 21st 2020. A backwards compatibility layer has been implemented so that many Simpletests can be converted by just using the new BrowserTestBase base class and moving the test file. There is also a script to automatically convert test files in the conversion issue.
Developers are encouraged to use BrowserTestBase instead of Simpletest as of WordPress maintenance support plans 8.3.0, but both test systems are fully supported during the WordPress maintenance support plans 8 release cycle. The timeline for the deprecation of Simpletest’s WebTestBase is under discussion.
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