Automated Testing and Sitecore – Part 3

In my first post of this series I talked about the high level concepts of how I do my automated testing in Sitecore. All of the techniques I wrote about require a known content structure to test against as the content tree makes up one part of the input into our test. This post is [...]

Into Shared Source

It is with great pride I today became part of the elite known as the Sitecore shared source contributors. How does one become part of such a privileged group? You just have to contribute something to the Sitecore shared source repository . I have placed one of my Sitecore tweaks, the Editor Line [...]

Automated Testing and Sitecore – Part 2

In the first post of this series I mention I make use of a custom NUnit test runner which runs in the Sitecore context. In this post I’ll take you through creating such a test runner.
The test runner is just a web form deployed to the webroot of your Sitecore site. Because it runs inside [...]

Show some standard fields always

I had a question posed to me today from Krystle Magadia from New Zealand about how to show some of the standard fields without having to switch on standard fields under the view tab in the content editor. The scenario given was that the archive and reminder fields (under the tasks field section) should always [...]

Automated Testing and Sitecore – Part 1

Well, my last post seems to have generated some interest. Automated testing with Sitecore is a hot topic. It is much more difficult and complex than those 2 second demos you see for general unit testing in your code. The purpose of this post is to describe how I currently perform my automated testing against [...]

Damn you VSUnit!

I ran into quite an unusual quirk with VSUnit today. (I’ve taken to calling Visual Studio Unit Testing VSUnit for brevity.) I’ve been doing some Sitecore dev using Test Driven Development (TDD) which I have had great success with in the past when working in a purely NUnit space. But with VSUnit I like the [...]

Source Control for my content

Sitecore already has version control built in for content. This is great when you’re using the CMS to deliver content, but during implementation the benefit isn’t as great. What would be really good, is if I could somehow utilise my existing source control software which I use for my developer files for the content as [...]