GSOC 2016- Providing Web Tests for the Safe Search feature for the Google Vision module- Week 4

TL;DR In my last post Avoid Explicit Contents in the images using Google Vision module, I had discussed about the services which “Safe Search” feature of the Vision API provides us, and how we have put this into use in the Google Vision module as a constraint to all the image fields which would be validated when the option is enabled. This week I have worked on developing simple web tests for testing this feature whether it gives us the results as expected.

Last week I had worked on developing the code to use the Safe Search detection feature as a constraint to the image fields which would validate the images for the presence of explicit contents, provided that the user enables the configuration for the concerned image field.

Besides the code, testing the functionality using simple web tests are equally essential to ensure that the feature executes perfectly when necessary steps are implemented.

Hence, this week I have worked on developing simple web tests, which ensures that we have a fully functional feature.

I have tested both the conditions with safe search enabled and disabled to verify the results which should be obtained. When the safe search is enabled, any image containing any sort of  explicit content, is detected, and asked for moderation. If the image is not moderated, then the image is not saved. When the same image was passed through the second test, with safe search disabled, it was stored successfully, thus providing us the expected results.

To conduct the test successfully, I had to create a demo content type in my tests using drupalCreateContentType(), which would have an image field with the ‘Enable Safe Search’ option. This was something new to me to how to add an extra field to the default content type settings. The Drupal documentation on FieldConfig and FieldStorageConfig were of great help to understand the underlying concepts and functions which the field offers, and thus helping me to create custom fields programmatically. However, in order to perform the test, I had to call the API directly, which required a valid API key and an image which actually contains explicit content. Hence, my mentors asked me to override the functions of the class (mocking the services) in such a way that it removes the dependency from both the key and the image. Thus, I created a test module inside the Google Vision module, and override the function.

Summarizing the above, I can say that in addition to learning how to test the constraints and validators, I also came to learn about some really cool techniques, including the creation of custom fields in tests and mocking the services.

The lingotek_test of the Lingotek Translation module is a good reference to learn about how to override the services in web tests. Other references which are useful for mocking are ServiceProviderBase and Mocking for Unit Tests.