In the fast-paced world of web development, maintaining websites has evolved into a complex and time-consuming endeavor. The challenge extends beyond just creating feature-rich websites, encompassing ensuring security, and reliability, and keeping websites up-to-date. Fortunately, automation tools like Dependabot, Violinist.io, Renovate, and various testing frameworks, including Behat, Cypress, NightwatchJS, and Playwright, have emerged as powerful solutions to streamline and enhance the maintenance process. By automating maintenance tasks, these tools allow teams to allocate more resources to the human aspect of maintaining websites, which includes fixing bugs, improving the editorial experience, and adding incremental features.
Session Category
Development & Performance
Who Should Attend
Back-end Developers
Decision Makers
Front-end Developers
Project Managers
Site Builders
Sys Admins
Prerequisites
Basic Knowledge of Drupal: Understanding the basics of Drupal, an open-source content management system.
Familiarity with Version Control Systems: Knowledge of version control systems, particularly Git, is crucial since these automated updaters often work within the context of version control repositories.
Concepts of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Knowledge of CI/CD practices and tools is beneficial. These practices are often where automated updaters and testing frameworks are most effectively utilized.
Concept of Dependency Management: Understanding how software dependencies work and why keeping them updated is important for security and functionality.
Problem-Solving Mindset: An analytical approach to understanding how integrating these tools can solve specific problems in software development, particularly in the context of Drupal.
Awareness of Security Best Practices: Since one of the key reasons for using automated updaters is to maintain security by keeping dependencies up to date, a basic understanding of web security principles is advantageous.
