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In this series of tutorials, you will learn how to create a Drupal Commerce site from scratch. You will learn how individual modules in Drupal Commerce suite fit together to build an e-commerce store, irrespective of whether you are selling products, services or subscriptions.

You need to show a list of content on a page. You know that you need to use Views for it. But you are wondering whether to create a Page View or a Block View. Ask yourself this simple question to decide it for yourself.

Recently you must have heard of the term "headless Drupal". You may be wondering what exactly it is. How is it different than standard Drupal and how can you implement it? If these are the questions that are plaguing you, then this is the post for you.

You must have read plenty of articles on how to tune your Drupal site to improve its page load times. This post assembles an exhaustive list of all the configurations and tweaks you can do to improve Drupal's performance before increasing RAM and CPU speed of your server. The list contains components from the full stack, including Drupal application and modules, front-end proxies, CDN, webserver, PHP, database, OS and server hardware.

Have you ever worked on a large project where out of the blue, one day, the client says that editors are not seeing a block of new blog posts in right sidebar on so and so page? It's generally pretty easy to fix this problem. Just go to the configuration form of that block and see what the conditions are for displaying the block. Or it could be a block written by you in a custom module and then you'll need to check hook_block_view() in your module to see where the problem lies. But you are still unhappy because the bug was caught on production. Have you thought of automating the block test so that a block with wrong settings never gets deployed in production? In this post, we'll show you how to automate the test for blocks in less than 10 mins.

This post will help you write and run your first Drupal integration test in less than 15 minutes. By end of this post, you will be able to write an automated test to make sure that superuser is able to create two pieces of content, one published and the other unpublished. We'll test that anonymous user is able to view the published content and is not able to view the unpublished content. You can follow along these steps on any Unix or Mac machine and have automated tests running in a matter of minutes.

Learn how to install Red Test, a fast integration testing framework for Drupal.

Are you frustrated by the fact that Drupal doesn't provide good support for unit tests? But you still think that a large Drupal project should have automated tests so you have started using Behat and Selenium for functional and user acceptance testing. It worked well for a while but now there are so many test scenarios that you are finding it difficult to maintain all of them. To make it worse, your test suite takes hours and hours to complete. If you are looking to solve this problem, then read on to know how integration tests can help you.

This article provides you with the steps required to create a Drupal event calendar. First, two modules are downloaded and enabled - Calendar and Date.

A new content type called Events is then created. Two events are created based on this content type. A View is then configured to display the calendar featuring events.