(jthorson)

On October 18th, 2007, Chad Phillips (hummonk) made an initial commit to the ‘Project Issue File Test’ module, with the description “initial commit of an integrated file testing platform for project issue module”. This kicked off the pursuit of automated testing integration between drupal.org and qa.d.o (then referred to as testing.drupal.org). In 2009, Jimmy Berry (boombatower) performed a significant overhaul and redesign of the system with the release of PIFT/PIFR 2.0, introducing a number of structural and architectural changes and improvements.

By the time Drupal 8 is launched, we’ll have been running for 5 years on the current architecture, and almost 7 years on the project. In that time it has served us well; but unfortunately the code has not kept up with technology and the changing needs of the Drupal community. The D8 launch brings with it a host of new requirements, such as an urgent need to test against PHP 5.4, 5.5, and 5.6; while simultaneously supporting PHP 5.3 for legacy D6/D7 contrib projects.

'Modernizing Testbot' is an unofficial community initiative with the noble goal of rebuilding Drupal.org's automated testing infrastructure, based on modern technologies and best practices. This BoF is an opportunity for those working on the initiative, and other interested parties, to get together, discuss the project and progress to date, and get answers to any outstanding questions or curiosities that they might have ... or come to find out how they might help!