Contributions
Shaping the tools I use every day, one pull request at a time
A hand-picked selection: only the contributions worth reading about, not every merged pull request.
Generate PhpStorm URN mappings relative to the project root — on GitHub
The URN generator wrote absolute filesystem paths into .idea/misc.xml, so committing that file broke autocompletion for every other developer on the team.
Fail loudly when a page URL cannot be resolved — on GitHub
Write {{AdminLoginPage}} instead of {{AdminLoginPage.url}} and MFTF navigated to the literal placeholder string, failing several steps later with an error that pointed nowhere. Now it throws where the mistake actually is.
Add the <magentoCron> test action — on GitHub
Functional tests waited on real cron or faked it with CLI calls. A first-class action that runs cron groups and respects the 60-second interval between runs of the same group.
Refactor the TestGenerator class — on GitHub
The class that turns XML tests into PHP was the least readable and one of the slowest parts of the framework. Same output, far less to hold in your head.
Only merged work is listed here, and only the parts worth a comment — the full history, including everything still in review, lives on GitHub.
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Admin steps used
amOnPage, which ignores a separate backend domain, so anyone running the admin on its own host could not run the suite. Switched toamOnUrland put URL resolution in one class instead of five.