Figure out how to set up automatic testing 😅

[carodew]

it should include …

• ping someone in #dev and see if there's someone who can coach us through this
• figure out what Federalist is testing for already (so we don't duplicate)
• talking to someone who knows what they're doing (Circle CI, accesslint?)
• creating clear issues for the work that needs to be done, once we know what that work is

it's done when …

• we know what we need in terms of automatic testing, and that info has been added to Add automatic testing into the workflow #31

Does not include actually setting up the automatic testing, we'll do that in a separate issue.

outstanding questions

• how do we even ...

[carodew]

what I've learned so far

plainlanguage.gov uses a Circle CI implementation that’s a very basic html check plus a few other things and would probably work fine for us.

This is the html proofer – https://github.com/gjtorikian/html-proofer
and this is plainlanguage.gov's circle ci implementation –https://github.com/GSA/plainlanguage.gov/blob/master/circle.yml

Unless someone else object, I think this is probably our best path forward and is probably good enough – I can dig into how we go about implementing it if I hear no objections. You know what they say, if it's good enough for plainlanguage.gov, it's good enough for me.

[jeremyzilar]

OMG, thank you for digging this up.
Maybe I can ask @hursey013 how he set this up.

[carodew]

@jeremyzilar All I did was ask in #dev. :D

and @hursey013 is the person who is giving me tips. :D

He sez – "if you have a config.yml in the root of your project, then you basically just connect your github account with circleci, add the project repo, hit build, and it’ll find the circle.yml"

[carodew]

So I've merged the circle.yml file from plainlanguage.gov into demo (probably needs to be merged to prod to but I think whenever the next release is will be fine) and I'm able to run builds in the Circle CI interface.

I do get an error bc htmlproofer is not installed, but it's called in our circle.yml file. I think once someone does that (@thisisdano maybe?) we will be good!

I will update the "install automatic tests" ticket with these details and move the card into Ready.

(I'm only doing this on a Saturday because I realized I left this half done yesterday and figured it'd only take five minutes).

[hursey013]

@carodew you'll want to add htmlproofer to your Gemfile, like so https://github.com/GSA/plainlanguage.gov/blob/master/Gemfile#L6

[thisisdano]

@carodew I added this into the demo branch