After spending all too many hours toiling away on Drupal 5 sites without the benefit of unit testing, I’m finally getting to spend some quality time with Drupal 6’s SimpleTest module. Things have certainly gotten a lot better in the Drupal testing world over the last year or two.

As I work to develop my testing chops it’s hard to avoid pining for Ruby, where the community has been obsessed with testing for years, where lots of experiments have been tried, and where the language syntax actually works with you to make test code more elegant.