This week I wrote controller unit tests

This might not sound like much of an achievement, but it’s been a big gap in our testing coverage.

The limiting factor has been how to mock out services: we want to ensure the email sender is used, but not actually send it.

A few things have made this easier: enabling autowiring, a better understanding of Symfony and its configuration options, and a real need for these tests.

As far as I’m aware, there’s now nothing we can’t test. This is great news for our test confidence, but also our coverage measurement: if we can cover everything in unit tests, we can measure it easily. Up until now we’ve been limited to end-to-end testing, which is hard to measure.

Summary

• Finished moving my portion of emails to GOV.UK Notify
• Wrote unit tests for some related controllers
• Updated design of administration panel
  • This has been a long time coming
• Created command for the document synchroniser
  • This is fully tested and can run in the background. It’s really building on our good work in the past few months
• Wrote a set of stories for changing our data structure to support multiple deputy types per client
• Picked up LSGNT work for the first time in a while, aiming to get it back on track
• And a whole lot of house stuff which got in the way of everything