When developing an application, our aim as software developers is to make sure it does what it ought to do and to keep the number of defects as low as possible. We should also strive to make our lives easier, to counter external circumstances like tight deadlines and ever-changing requirements causing the exact opposite. That’s […]

Mockery tries to provide an easy to read and understand API, which is also versatile enough, so any scenario that might come up when working with mock objects in our test cases are covered. In this first part, we’ll see how Mockery can be used to create different test doubles and how they fit into […]

Sometimes code is first tested when the unfortunate client or user feels like using the feature and tests the developer’s work. Hopefully, they’re not disappointed. That’s why you should be interested in unit testing and Test-Driven Development (TDD)—because it makes your life as a programmer better.

In this issue: Xdebug, Freelancing, Parsing text, MySQL Generated Columns, Gitflow, PhpStorm, and more.

This month we’re covering a full-featured unit and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) test framework named Kahlan. Kahlan is similar to RSpec (Ruby) and JSpec (Java) using BDD style syntax where you describe the behavior your application should have.

Writing clean code, managing technical debt, testing with Mockery, Toxic Tech, API specifications, and more.

In part one, we laid the practical groundwork for using test doubles. Let’s explore the parts of Mockery that, in some cases, exit the realm of everyday usage and see how it can help us in dealing with scenarios we might have thought impossible to test like static method calls, spying on objects, and more.

By Ondrej Mirtes. In this article, I’d like to introduce you to the concept of type safety and how it can improve the reliability and stability of your code. Once your code is more type-safe, and that fact is verified by automated tools, you can cherry-pick which parts of your application need extensive unit tests and where you can rely just on well-defined types.

In this Episode Our hosts, Eric van Johnson and John Congdon dive into Testing in Practice and the April 2018 issue of php magazine and interview Robert Basic, one of the contributors to Mockery. Oscar talks about the importance of training for employees and rants against image slideshows.

PHP Unit, Mockery, Type Hints, Async PHP, building a REST API, training programs, PHP isolation and security, serverless computing, Laravel auth, and more.