Solar flares can break websites!
We recently spotted an unusual bug that we believe was caused by a solar flare. In this post we'll document how the issue was identified and how it was resolved.
Overview for testing
Running PHPUnit with a specific data provider set
Recently when writing some tests using a data provider in PHPUnit, I wanted to be able to re-run a specific set, rather than the test with every single set in the data provider. I discovered the filtering options available in PHPUnit were a lot more powerful than I'd first thought.
Dumping your database on scenario failure in behat
Recently while debugging some tests that were failing on our build server, but passing locally, we needed to see the state of the Database for the application when a test had failed - using Behat hooks and the Symfony Process component, here's how we did it.
Swift Mailer, Symfony and spooling emails for testing purposes
We've found ourselves needing some higher-level tests for some emails that were being sent recently (via a command that's run regularly from a cron) - here's how we did it!