Quality Assurance in PHP Projects
Sebastian Bergmann (thePHP.cc)

Another awesome presentation and workshop today.

There are so many take-aways, I’m not sure what to add in. I took five pages of notes.

PHPUnit Best Practices:

• Use the setup() method
• Make functions for code that is reused.
• Make test for edge cases.
• Use –testdox to display code complete.
• Use –skeleton-test for existing code.
• Use –coverage-html (requires xdebug).
• Use “mock” objects
• Use vfsStream to test file I/O for in-RAM tests HOT!
• Use extension “DatabaseTestCase”
  • keeps database state, need ot describe valide state, though.
  • Compares different states; can work with text files too, e.g. xml, csv…
  • Requires PDO
• Integrate with Selenium to run HTML export files from Firefox.

Measuring Software Quality Tools:

• phploc
• phpcpd
• PHP_Depend
• phpmd
• PHP_Codesniffer
• bytekit_cli