Automation tools for local installs, tests and deployment For WordPress developers

1. @@iv_wp
The WordPress
Developer's Toolkit
Technical Tool Guide

3. Issues to solve
➢ Local installs automation
➢ Testing
➢ Deployment

4. Flying Start

6. ➢ Ruby >= 1.9.3 (JRuby and C-Ruby/YARV are
supported)
➢ Capistrano support these source code version control
systems out of the box:
○ Git 1.8 or higher
○ Mercurial
○ SVN
Requirements

8. Setup a New Project

9. Switch between WordPress Versions

10. Mercury Vagrant
“Mercury project is meant
to allow people in the
WordPress community to
run a single Vagrant for
developing, debugging,
and deploying HHVM
based code.”

11. Requirements
➢ Git
➢ Virtual machine software (VMware or VirtualBox are
recommended)
➢ Vagrant
➢ Node
➢ Vagrant Ghost plugin - for automation of hosts file updates

12. Local Install Set-Up
New project folder in hgv/sites
provisioning/default-install.
yml →
hgv_data/config/sites/default.yml
Config the yml file
Run vagrant provision.

13. What do you get?
➢ Fresh WordPress install with some useful
plugins
➢ All config files set up
➢ DB set up
➢ Debug tools
➢ ssh access to the vagrant files
➢ caching if needed – Memcache / Varnish

14. WP CLI
WP-CLI is a set of
command-line tools for
managing WordPress
installations. You can
update plugins, set up
multisite installs and much
more, without using a web
browser.

16. The DB problem

17. Next Step

19. <?php
$I = new AcceptanceTester($scenario);
$I->wantTo('sign in');
$I->amOnPage('/login');
$I->fillField('username', 'davert');
$I->fillField('password', 'qwerty');
$I->click('LOGIN');
$I->see('Welcome, Davert!');
?>

20. What we can test?
➢ Forms
➢ Clicks
➢ Check Elements
➢ Grabbers
➢ Cookies, Urls, Title

21. Selenium
WebDriver
Selenium-WebDriver was developed to better support dynamic web pages
where elements of a page may change without the page itself being reloaded.
WebDriver’s goal is to supply a well-designed object-oriented API that provides
improved support for modern advanced web-app testing problems.
Selenium-WebDriver makes direct calls to the browser using each browser’s
native support for automation.

22. Web Browser and Selenium

23. wp-browser
modules:
enabled:
- WPBrowser
config:
WPBrowser:
url: 'http://example.local'
adminUsername: 'root'
adminPassword: 'root'
adminUrl: '/wp-core/wp-admin'

24. Usage
// login as administrator using username and password
public function loginAsAdmin();
// login as user
public function loginAs($username, $password);
// go the plugins page
public function amOnPluginsPage();
// activate a plugin from the plugin page
public function activatePlugin($pluginSlug);
// deactivate a plugin from the plugin page
public function deactivatePlugin($pluginSlug);

25. Deployment

26. Capistrano
As a deployment tool

27. Features
➢ Different stages of deployment
➢ Secure deployment via SSH
➢ Sets different WordPress versions on server
➢ Symlinks to protect not deployed folders
➢ Backups
➢ Roll Back

28. git push
Add remote locally
- check remotes – git remote -v
- add remote – git remote add
<your repo ssh link>
git push <branch name needed>

29. Features
➢ Easy to use
➢ No need of additional setup
➢ Easy to revert
➢ Supported by many hosts

30. What to pick?

31. Thank you!

32. Resources
1. http://capistranorb.com/
2. http://codeception.com/
3. https://github.com/wpengine/hgv
4. https://wp-cli.org/
5. https://github.com/danielbachhuber/wp-rest-cli
6. https://github.com/lucatume/wp-browser