Improving Test Automation is one of the key goals for Magento 2. Test automation can help improve the quality of code, find introduced bugs earlier, reduce release overheads making more frequent releases possible, and so on. In the modern day world of software development, I doubt any serious project does not include at least some test automation as a […]

Magento 2 natively incorporates LESS, a CSS pre-processor that simplifies the management of complex CSS files. This post explains the decision behind Magento 2 selecting LESS over SASS. (Spoiler: LESS and SASS are very similar but there were good quality LESS pre-processors implemented in PHP when we had to commit for Magento 2, with none yet stable for SASS.) Acknowledgement: Thanks to @VasiliySeleznev for lots of background […]

A part of making Magento 2 have less issues with extension conflicts is to use better technologies to replace parts of a Magento site. By defining standard APIs to talk to different subsystems (see my previous post on the new Magento 2 Service Layer and Modularization) it becomes much easier to swap in and out different implementations. Dependency […]