---
title: "Jimmy Berry on the Drupal Test Framework"
url: "/podcasts/drupal-voices/jimmy-berry-on-the-drupal-test-framework"
type: episode
date: 2009-10-21
updated: 2014-04-09
---

# Jimmy Berry on the Drupal Test Framework

#  Jimmy Berry on the Drupal Test Framework 

  

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[Jimmy Berry](https://boombatower.com/) (aka [boombatower](http://drupal.org/user/214218)) is the Drupal 7 Testing Subsystem Maintainer and maintainer of [testing.drupal.org.](http://testing.drupal.org) Testing has become an integral part of the core Drupal development process as Drupal 7 has adopted a test-driven development model, which [Dries explains here.](https://dri.es/drupal-7-testing-status-update-and-next-steps)

So Jimmy has picked up the testing torch for Drupal, and talks about his involvement with the [SimpleTest framework](http://drupal.org/project/simpletest) and helping getting it into Drupal core, how that's changed the core development process, and what it could mean if also applied to contributed modules as well.

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