test runner

Watchr is a development tool that monitors a directory tree and triggers a user defined action (in Ruby) whenever an observed file is modified.

Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:

• Project: MakeGood - A test runner for doing Test Driven Development with Eclipse PDT
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• Matthew Weier O'Phinney's Blog: Creating Zend_Tool Providers

Goran has pointed out a plugin for Eclipse that can help those out there wanting to adopt Test-Driven Development into their process - MakeGood (screenshot here).

MakeGood provides a test runner to run unit tests on Eclipse PDT.

MakeGood strongly supports Test Driven Development (TDD) by various features.

Features in the plugin include:

Raphael Stolt has put together a guide showing how you can link PHPUnit and its test status to the Growl engine on OS X to share the results in a move visual way (than just watching the test runner).

Users of PHPUnit frequently ask me questions such as "How do I use PHPUnit from a Git checkout?" or "How do I run PHPUnit's own test suite?" This article provides the answers to these questions.

In a new post to his blog Michelangelo van Dam talks about a presentation he gave on testing Zend Framework applications (slides) and shares some of the code samples and techniques he mentioned.

Jamie Rumbelow has put together a post that talks about building the perfect environment for running the CodeIgniter framework with test-driven development processes.