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Test-Driven Development with PHP 8

By : Rainier Sarabia
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Test-Driven Development with PHP 8

By: Rainier Sarabia

Overview of this book

PHP web developers end up building complex enterprise projects without prior experience in test-driven and behavior-driven development which results in software that’s complex and difficult to maintain. This step-by-step guide helps you manage the complexities of large-scale web applications. It takes you through the processes of working on a project, starting from understanding business requirements and translating them into actual maintainable software, to automated deployments. You’ll learn how to break down business requirements into workable and actionable lists using Jira. Using those organized lists of business requirements, you’ll understand how to implement behavior-driven development (BDD) and test-driven development (TDD) to start writing maintainable PHP code. You’ll explore how to use the automated tests to help you stop introducing regressions to an application each time you release code by using continuous integration. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to start a PHP project, break down the requirements, build test scenarios and automated tests, and write more testable and maintainable PHP code. By learning these processes, you’ll be able to develop more maintainable, and reliable enterprise PHP applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Technical Background and Setup
6
Part 2 – Implementing Test-Driven Development in a PHP Project
11
Part 3 – Deployment Automation and Monitoring

Setting up an AWS EC2 instance

If you don’t already have an AWS account, you can follow the instructions at https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/create-and-activate-aws-account/ to create one.You will also have to create an AWS IAM User group. The instructions can be found on https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_groups_create.html. You will need an AWS IAM User, and follow the official documentation from AWS to create an IAM user in your AWS account at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_users_create.html.

We will also need the following AWS resources to complete the EC2 setup:

  • AWS EC2 key pair
  • IAM instance profile

Why do we need an EC2 instance? Well, this will serve as our remote server. You can think of it as your host computer running in the cloud. We will use this server to host our Docker containers to run and serve our application:

Figure 10.1 – EC2 instance

Figure 10.1 – EC2 instance

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