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Developing Extensions for Joomla! 5

You're reading from   Developing Extensions for Joomla! 5 Extend your sites and build rich customizations with Joomla! plugins, modules, and components

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804617991
Length 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Carlos M. Cámara Mora Carlos M. Cámara Mora
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Developing Components
2. Chapter 1: Planning Your Component FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Developing the Backend of a Basic Joomla! Component 4. Chapter 3: Developing the Frontend of a Basic Joomla! Component 5. Chapter 4: Creating Forms in Joomla! 6. Chapter 5: Harnessing the Power of Joomla! in Your Component 7. Chapter 6: Adding a Web Service API to Your Component 8. Part 2: Developing Modules and Plugins
9. Chapter 7: Developing a Module 10. Chapter 8: Developing a Joomla! Plugin 11. Chapter 9: Adding a CLI to Your Extension 12. Part 3: Extending Templates
13. Chapter 10: Creating Unique Web Applications with Template Overrides 14. Chapter 11: Creating a Child Template in Joomla! 15. Part 4: Distributing Your Extensions
16. Chapter 12: Testing Your Extensions 17. Chapter 13: Security Practices in Joomla! 18. Chapter 14: Distributing Your Joomla! Extensions 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

How to add system testing in Joomla!

System testing consists of a set of tests that check that your development works as expected, as per your design specifications. To develop system tests, you need to know how the system should work and what to expect after performing several actions in your system.

There are several methods to perform system testing. The easier to understand is manual testing. You have your testing site and you need to keep testing your development manually. This is far from ideal as you might be subject to errors and omissions in your tests. But if you are a systematic person and write down all your tests and results, it can be very effective. In any case, when you need to test against several PHP and Joomla! versions, this kind of test is highly time-consuming and not the best.

Automatic system testing is a whole subject itself and several books could be written about it. In this chapter, we are going to take the simplest way and we are going to use the...

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