Problem MySQL v5.7 on Local Lightning doesn’t return helpful error messages. e.g. “Unknown error 1054” instead of “ERROR: Unknown column ‘foo’ in ‘field list‘”. In the case of a typo in a keyword e.g. “sssselect foo from wp_options” no errors are returned at all. From the Local Lightning log:Can’t find error-message file ‘/usr/local/mysql/share/errmsg.sys’. Check error-message […]
Acceptance Testing WordPress Plugins
In my previous post on acceptance testing, I demonstrated how I’ve been using Codeception to build a bank of acceptance tests for Gravity Flow to check for regression issues and ensure reliability between every release. In this second post, I make the case for a deeper approach to acceptance testing and demonstrate how to create […]
Acceptance Testing: Gravity Flow
Update 1 June 2017: Read my second post on acceptance testing for an easier way to set up the test environment – Acceptance Testing WordPress plugins — As more and more organisations depend on Gravity Flow for business workflow automation the responsibility of ensuring reliability between releases is becoming increasingly important. One of the ways of ensuring that […]
Gravity Forms CLI Tutorial
Update 27 February 2020: Added command to delete all entries for a form (see Advanced usage) Update 6 June 2016: added contribution section. ——– The Gravity Forms CLI Add-On was released last week. What is it? What can it do? And how on earth do you use it? Introduction Requirements Installation Install Gravity Forms and Add-Ons Verifying […]
Gravity Flow released
So, about 12 months after beginning this journey, Gravity Flow is finally available for purchase. (use the discount code LAUNCH10PERCENT for an early bird discount) Around 200 beta testers have been using it. I’d estimate around 30 of those for real-world processes, and about 400 people have tried the online demo. About 100 of the 200 beta […]