test driven development

On NetTuts.com today a new tutorial has been posted to help you test your applications and make it a simpler process using the EnhancePHP framework. EnhancePHP is a lightweight Open Source PHP unit testing framework with support for mocks and stubs.

I like to do this every year. It’s a reflect and reset-type of thing for me. Here’s what I accomplished from last year’s resolutions:

A couple of weeks ago, I was attending a three-day workshop for agile developer skills. The workshop was split into five topics: Colaboration, Refactoring, Design & Architecture, Continious Integration and Test Driven Development.

Especially the session about Test Driven Development was very interesting. Although I know the principles of TDD I was really impressed by the demonstration of solving a simple exercise (a coding kata) done in Java by the instructors of the workshop.

Wojciech Sznapka has a new post today sharing his opinions as to why Mockery is better than PHPUnit Mock Builder in testing Symfony2-based applications.

Recently, there have been many screencasts of people coding things in real time.

Yesterday, Ryan Bigg released a video of him implementing Conway's Game of Life from scratch by reading through the 'rules' and then using RSpec to take a test driven approach to fleshing out the functionality.

As I've written before, I'm concerned about the state of the PHP ecosystem. There are lots of good applications written in the language, but there is very little code sharing between different projects, mainly because of framework incompatibilities, but also because of quite a strong NIH culture.

Fall season is traditionally conference season in the PHP community. This October, you will have the chance to catch all three partners of thePHP.cc -- Sebastian Bergmann, Arne Blankerts, and Stefan Priebsch -- at the following events:

Thank you to everyone who attended my May 25th PHP|Tek talk on Test Driven Development. If you have not had a chance, please do leave feedback on joind.in.

Per the audiance request, below are the requirements, test file and source code we developed during the live tutorial.

Requirements: Hash object get and set function respond [...]

So ever since the fine folks at Addison Wesley sent over a copy of Test-Driven JavaScript Development (by Christian Johansen) I’ve been trying to wrap my head around a new sort of testing when it comes to web apps.

I’m not even half-way through the book and I’ve already had my mind blown by advanced javascript and testing methods that I just never thought about when I work on my frontends.

In this new post to his blog Giorgio Sironi points out a new project that wants to help you get started with test-driven development - Munchkin.