Repository navigation
Set several options in one step #380
Description
Scenarios often run wp option update or wp site option update only to configure the site before the test, for example uploads_use_yearmonth_folders in 43 media-command scenarios. Each call is a full WordPress bootstrap of about 0.3 seconds, and it happens about 140 times per suite run in scenarios with several setup commands.
A step that sets a list of options at once would avoid a process per option.
Activity
schlessera commentedon Oct 31, 2026
Measured in #398 against the test suites of 4 bundled commands, with three runs with and without the change each (see the pull request description for the numbers).
Consecutive option updates during setup turned out to be rare, with 8 occurrences across the bundled commands, and a single option update costs the same with or without the step. The total Behat time changed by −1.1%, within the run-to-run variation, and the change did not cause any failures.
Closing, as the step does not make a measurable difference. Running several setup commands in a row in a single process is covered by #378.