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Testing PHP/MySQL Applications with PHPUnit/DbUnit - Sebastian Bergmann

Here is the presentation material I used for my “Testing PHP/MySQL Applications with PHPUnit/DbUnit” presentation at the MySQL Conference in Santa Clara, CA today.

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PHP Has No Culture of Testing - Sebastian Bergmann

Charles Nutter, a Sun engineer who has worked on the JRuby project, commented on PHP in a panel discussion at Sun’s CommunityOne conference.
I will not join the “PHP vs. Ruby on Rails” “discussion” here, as the comparison of a programming language to a web application framework for another language does not make sense, IMHO. Instead, […]

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PHP Test Fest in Cologne - Sebastian Bergmann

The PHP TestFest is on!
The PHP TestFest is an event that aims at improving the code coverage of the test suite for the PHP interpreter itself. As part of this event, local User Groups (UG) are invited to join the PHP TestFest. These UGs can meet physically or come together virtually. The point however is […]

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Sebastian Bergmann’s Blog: Map and Reduce in PHP

In this new blog entry, Sebastian Bergmann talks about two bits of functionality that PHP has that bring it a bit closer to a full functional language - array_map and array_reduce.

Just like Python, PHP is not a full-fledged functional language, but it supports some very useful functional idioms such as map and reduce. A blog […]

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Prepare for TestFest - Sebastian Bergmann

Here is a list of things attendees of a PHP TestFest event, such as the one in Cologne tomorrow, can do to prepare themselves:
Bring your notebook computer.Either have a checkout of the PHP_5_3 source tree or a recent snapshot of it.Ideally, you also have gcov and lcov installed.
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PHP Unconference in Hamburg - Sebastian Bergmann

Just like last year, I will attend this year’s installment of the PHP Unconference in Hamburg, Germany on April 26 and 27 2008.
This is a great opportunity to get up to speed on the current developments in PHP and to meet members of the “PHP Internals” community as well as developers […]

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Generating Code from Tests - Sebastian Bergmann

When you are practicing Test-First Programming, PHPUnit can help you generate class skeletons from test case classes.
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On PHPUnit and Software Metrics - Sebastian Bergmann

Manuel Pichler’s recent blog entry on PHP_Depend prompted me to write about my opinion on the future of software metrics and project mess detection in PHPUnit.
When I started to work on these projects, there was no other place for me then to develop them as part of PHPUnit. There was no […]

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PHP Code Camp - Sebastian Bergmann

This blog posting is in German as the event it relates to is German-only. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Die Entwickler Akademie prsentiert vom 3. bis 6. Mrz 2008 in Mnchen das PHP Code Camp. Erleben Sie ein Trainingskonzept, das Ihnen tiefgehend und in besonders innovativer Form vermittelt, wie Sie PHP-Anwendungen professionell entwickeln knnen. Der Fokus liegt […]

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Sebastian Bergmann’s Blog: Isolated (and Parallel) Test Execution

Sebastian Bergmann points out a new feature that PHPUnit (the popular PHP unit testing tool) now has - parallel_test_execution allowing for each test to execute on a separate PHP process.

The advantages of this include full test isolation and the fact that a test can now cause a PHP fatal error or even a segmentation fault […]

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