Like many Drupal teams, the CSRA/New Target web team at the Administrative Office of the US Courts is working to bring automated testing into our development and maintenance workflow. In this talk, I’ll share our current thinking on the following issues: 1. Why Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is essential 2. Limits …
The PHP Roundtable discusses two software testing approaches: test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development (BDD). The participants talk about how these two methodologies bring a unique angle to testing software and how we can use them in tandem in our own PHP project.
Testing our applications is something we all do. Ahem, rather, it’s something we all *wish* we did. In this chat, I’ll introduce you to Behat version 3: a behavior-driven-development (BDD) library that allows you to write functional tests against your application just by writing human-readable sentences/scenarios.
This talk presents the adoption of BDD from the back-end (with the likes of Behat and phpspec) through to the front-end (with Mocha.js and Cucumber.js) and how you can align these processes to make all your development consistent. It also discusses how this approach suits an Agile process.
CodeIgniter is an agile and open source PHP web application framework. CodeIgniter Unit Test class is relatively simple to use and allows you to perform unit testing for your code.
A lot of people will tell you that unit testing in PHP is easy, but in practice it’s one of the hardest disciplines to get right. When you’ve never written unit tests before you’ll probably have a million questions really fast; your code has got a lot of dependencies, runs …
