Talking Drupal #506 - Automated Testing Kit

Jun 9, 2025

André Angelantoni, the founder of Performant Labs, shares his extensive experience with Drupal and the Automated Testing Kit. He dives into the importance of automated testing, comparing frameworks like Cypress and Playwright, and explains how the kit can be set up on existing sites. André provides insights into creating effective testing recipes and the road to debugging. He also touches on the Taxonomy Views Integrator module, showcasing its role in customizing content display for Drupal sites. Tune in to learn about enhancing site quality and development efficiency!

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Taxonomy Views Integrator Use Case

The Taxonomy Views Integrator module allows customizing taxonomy term views for specific vocabularies or terms.
It helped customize event listings on the Drupal event platform without breaking global taxonomy views.

INSIGHT

Automated Testing Kit Focus

Automated Testing Kit offers almost two dozen standard tests for vanilla Drupal sites.
It focuses on end-to-end user journeys rather than unit or integration testing.

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Playwright Preferred over Cypress

Playwright is preferred over Cypress due to better speed and control.
Cypress's design decisions cause slower tests and debugging challenges, unlike Playwright.

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Today we are talking about Automated Testing Kit demo Recipe, Why Automated Testing is important, and How this recipe helps with guest André Angelantoni. We’ll also cover Taxonomy Views Integrator as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/506

Topics

What is Automated Testing Kit
Features and benefits of Automated Testing Kit
Cypress vs Playwright
Where should these run
Automated Testing Kit recipe
Demo configuration
Installing and setting up the Kit
Using this on an existing site
Managing tests and repositories
Building and using recipes
Debugging and troubleshooting tests
Roadmap

Resources

Guests

André Angelantoni - drupal.org/project/automated_testing_kit aangel

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Norah Medlin - tekNorah

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to customize the taxonomy display view for a specific vocabulary, or even a specific taxonomy term? There’s a module for that.
Module name/project name:
- Taxonomy Views Integrator
Brief history
- How old: created in Sep 2009 by Derek Webb (derekwebb1) though the most recent release was made by Kevin Quillen, who was a guest on the podcast in episodes 406 and 500
- Versions available: 2.0.0 which works with Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
Maintainership
- Actively maintained
- Security coverage
- Test coverage
- Documentation
- Number of open issues: 13 open issues, 4 of which are bugs against the 2.0.x branch
Usage stats:
- 24,130 sites
Module features and usage
- After enabling this module, when you edit a vocabulary or a taxonomy term, users with the necessary permissions will see an option to specify a view to show tagged content, and you can also choose which display to use
- You can create a new view from scratch, or clone the taxonomy/term/* view provided by core, or a view defined in code. Obvious it’s critical for the view to have a contextual filter for a taxonomy term
- Using this module could allow you to customize the presentation on a view page, for example to make the exposed filters more relevant, or even to split out the content, for example if you wanted to list only news in the main display, and have events and blog posts listed separately in attachments
- I found this module really helpful during some recent work on the Drupal Event Platform, so I thought I would share it with our listeners