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Posts from 2015

Revolver 3.0 Released and Open Source

Well, it took 3 years and help from 2 other contributors, but Revolver is finally open source! You'll find the module source on github at https://github.com/codeflood/revolver. Revolver has been release under the MIT license. Revolver 3 supports Sitecore versions 6.4 through to 8.1 and you'll find the release packages either on github...

WeBlog 2.4 Released

After a hell of a lot of effort I'm very proud to announce the release of WeBlog 2.4. The biggest feature of this release is full support for Content Search and support for Sitecore 8.0. You'll find a full list of issues fixed on the release page above. This release also marks the end of support for any version of Sitecore prior to 7.0. The codebase still contains all the old code and build...

Testable Code

Ahhh, automated testing. It's what gives you that warm fuzzy feeling that your code is all working as you intended. A validation that you're free from errors and a safety net for future modifications. OK, perhaps not necessarily free from errors, but you at least know the cases you've got covered are correct, and they're easy to run at any time to validate those cases are still working as...

What to Test?

Recently I was having a discussion with someone around how to test certain scenarios in Sitecore. The scenario in question involved testing a sublayout on a page to ensure it was working properly, and the developer was thinking of using something like Selenium to do this. This raised a flag with me. Although there are scenarios in which an automated web tester is the correct approach for this...