Testing Strategies for Sitecore

Alistair Deneys
Solution Architect
Next Digital

Nov 16, 2011
Noon Pacific, 3:00 PM Eastern, 8:00 PM UK.

This session presented by Alistair Deneys of Next Digital will demonstrate a variety of techniques for starting and improving unit testing in Sitecore projects. The presentation will commence with how to setup unit testing on your Sitecore project then move into other areas including, increasing the value and robustness of unit tests. Key learnings include:

• How to setup unit testing within Sitecore projects to allow testing against the Sitecore API
• How to setup test content for tests
• How to test various presentation components

Alistair Deneys is a Sitecore MVP and Solution Architect for Next Digital in Melbourne where he’s been working for the past 7 years. A seasoned web developer, he has previous experience in C++, Java and PHP, though his main technology is C# and .net. He started developing solutions using Sitecore about 6 years ago with Sitecore 4.3.2. During this time he has been involved in a wide variety of Sitecore projects, from small content driven sites to large enterprise intranets and multi-server deployments.

Alistair is active in the Sitecore community, regularly publishing posts on his blog about all things Sitecore. He is also quite involved with the Sitecore shared source projects, developing many modules himself and now one of the developers for the WeBlog blog module (previously EviBlog). He has also written a commercial command prompt for Sitecore called Revolver, allowing scripting of common, repetitive or complex operations.

Alistair is a strong believer in automated and unit testing and has developed many techniques over the years to assist with testing Sitecore solutions.

Follow-up

Alistair has been kind enough to share his powerpoint along with his sample site and code. You can view all of it on his blog post about the same presentation he gave at Dreamcore.

Video from the presentation