Drupal & Tech Articles by Metadrop

Engineering knowledge from real Drupal projects

Everything published here comes from production work: the contributed modules we maintain on drupal.org, the migrations, upgrades, and audits we deliver for enterprise clients, and the tooling we build to raise quality on every project. We document what we learn so your team can apply it.

Topics we write about regularly:

Drupal development — architecture, contributed modules, upgrades, migrations, and performance
AI and automation — practical AI integrations in Drupal, LLM tooling, and editorial workflows
Web accessibility — WCAG compliance and the European Accessibility Act
DevOps and infrastructure — hosting, CI/CD, local environments, and platform migrations
Software quality — testing strategy, Behat, PHPUnit, and QA tooling

18 September, 2025
Aljibe: quality and testing for Drupal developments with DDEV
Aljibe is a set of testing tools and best practices built on top of DDEV to help you develop Drupal projects. Discover all its capabilities and enhance the quality of your projects with ease.
- Ricardo Sanz
19 June, 2017
Ensuring software quality: Static code analysers
Static code analysers allow us to audit/measure the state of the project's code in an objective manner.
- Jorge Tutor
4 July, 2023
Successful QA testing and issue reporting
Within the web development workflow we follow at Metadrop, one of the crucial steps is the review of the implemented task's quality. This process aims to detect possible errors or bugs in order to correct them before the work reaches...
20 January, 2017
PhantomJS v2 some useful commands
In this article we show some very useful command to better configure our PhantonJS v2.
16 August, 2022
Mocking third-party API in development and test environments
Mocking an API, and therefore not relying on the connection to the third-party service, is useful in development and testing environments.
- Luis Ruiz
23 November, 2018
Jenkins and Job DSL plugin
Automating processes such as test execution or other frequently used operations can speed up the software development, and tools such as Jenkins and its Job DSL plugin are very useful for this purpose.
- Eduardo Morales
28 September, 2023
Drupal Camp Sevilla: how it was?
Thoughts on the Drupal Camp Sevilla that has just ended: the sessions, the community, the Business Day and some unplanned but interesting things.
- Ricardo Sanz