Automated tests are rapidly becoming a prerequisite for successful web projects, owing to the proliferation of automated testing tools and an explosion of continuous integration (CI) services that ensure the success of web implementations. Nonetheless, for many developers who are new to the space, automated testing can be an intimidating and altogether novel area that causes more than a few groans at weekly meetings. Luckily, with the right development culture and testing infrastructure in place, your team can focus on implementing new features rather than worrying about the quality of their code. Yuriy Gerasimov (Senior Back-End Engineer at Tag1 Consulting) delivered a presentation at DrupalCon New Orleans about automated testing and its advantages for web projects of all shapes and sizes. In this four-part blog series, we explore some of the essentials that all developers should be aware of as they explore automated testing as well as the key fundamentals you need to know to incorporate automated testing into your daily workflows. In this second installment, we inspect how to implement a robust testing infrastructure and how to cultivate a development culture favorable to automated testing with the help of code checks. Key elements of automated testing Over the course...