Upcoming Events
NYC CiviCRM Meetup - September 7th
September 7th, 2010
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Configuring, Customizing and Extending CiviCRM - New York
September 16th, 2010
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CiviCRM User and Administrator Training - New York
September 16th, 2010
A comprehensive two day hands on training course covering the configuration, (more...)
CiviCRM Code and Test Sprint - New York
September 18th, 2010
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CiviCRM Toronto Meetup
September 21st, 2010
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CiviCRM Philly Meetup – September 2010
September 23rd, 2010
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CiviCRM Seminar - Dublin
September 28th, 2010
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London developer and implementer training
September 30th, 2010
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London user and administrator training
September 30th, 2010
A comprehensive two day hands on training course covering the configuration, (more...)
Berlin user and administrator training
October 6th, 2010
A comprehensive one day hands on training course covering the configuration, (more...)
Berlin developer and implementer training
October 7th, 2010
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Benelux meetup in Brussels: Connect, communicate and activate your supporters and constituents
October 11th, 2010
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CiviCRM Toronto Meetup
October 19th, 2010
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CiviCRM Toronto Meetup
November 16th, 2010
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CiviCRM Components
Tools for engaging your supporters...
CiviCRM testing infrastructure
- Not Just a Contact Database
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These optional components give you more power to connect and engage your supporters.
civiCONTRIBUTE
Online fundraising and donor management.
civiEVENT
Online event registration and participant tracking.
civiMEMBER
Online signup and membership management.
civiMAIL
Personalized email blasts and newsletters.
civiREPORT
Report generation and template management.
Not a well known fact until now - during 3.0 release cycle, we've been working hard with DharmaTech to start regularly using unit tests for CiviCRM development and quality assurance. It's time to go out of the closet, since we're nearing the end of the first stage of this project - which was setting up everyone in the team with proper tools and migrating all the tests that we wrote before to our new framework.
So here's what we have right now:
- A list of tests that we have right now is here http://tests.dev.civicrm.org/results/ It's not fully green (meaning - some tests still fail), since we're still in the process of migrating old tests and fixing them, but we hope to get to "all green" state soon. This page is being regenerated every 30 minutes (for now) and we'll be using it to continually check for regression bugs.
- Code coverage report is here http://tests.dev.civicrm.org/coverage/ - we are doing quite good with API tests especially, coverage has been increasing steadily in last weeks. This should make our API more stable and reliable for integrators to work with.
Once we're finally done with current stage (finishing the migration), next steps will be:
- Starting to run tests against 3.0 (stable) code and for trunk (3.1 development) in the same time. This way, we'll see the regression happening on the trunk as new features jump in and will be able to wipe out some of the newly introduced problems long before alpha testing.
- Work on increasing the coverage for existing tests - the goal for 3.1 is API tests code coverage at 80% (at 59% currently), BAO tests code coverage at 50% (at 43% right now).
- Introducing browser tests (aka web tests). We'll be using Selenium and PHPUnit for this and hope for significant time savings on quality assurance we run before each stable release.
I'll be writing about this more, but will start with short request now: if you're using CiviCRM, filing issues and fixing bugs, please consider also helping us out with our unit tests. Filing an issue which has a test case attached speeds up fixing the bug considerably and also ensures that the similar bugs gets wiped out in the future in case they show up again during development of new versions. For now, if you want to get started, here are the instructions on how to set up the unit testing sandbox for CiviCRM.
