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WordPress Development Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   WordPress Development Quick Start Guide Build beautiful and dynamic websites for your domain from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789342871
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Preface 1. Introduction to WordPress Development FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing Database Structure, Storage, and Retrieval 3. Designing Flexible Frontends with Theme Development 4. Building Custom Modules with Plugin Development 5. Extending Plugins with Addons, Filters, and Actions 6. Practical Usage of WordPress APIs 7. Managing Custom Post Types and Processing Forms 8. Discovering Key Modules in Development 9. Enhancing Security, Performance, and Maintenance 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introduction to testing


The process of testing the features of the site and code is critical for building successful sites or applications. This process allows us to detect any defects in the site before releasing to a live environment. There are several types of testing used in web development, where some of them play a very important role compared to others. We can test both functional and non-functional aspects of WordPress sites using these testing types. In this section, we are going to have a brief introduction to the most important functional and non-functional testing types. 

Unit and integration testing

Unit testing is used to test each small component independent from others, while integration testing is used to test the application in combination with all the modules. These two tests fall into the functional category, as we are checking the functionality and logic of our code. Compared to other popular frameworks, WordPress code is not the easiest to test. However, we can use PHPUnit...

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