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Test-Driven Development with PHP 8

By : Rainier Sarabia
Book Image

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

Going through the application performance data

In the previous section, we installed a tool to collect performance and usage data from our PHP application. This data will be useless unless we are able to view and make sense of the data.

To view the data being gathered by the PHP agent we just installed, follow these steps:

  1. Go back to the new relic dashboard at https://one.newrelic.com and then click on the APM & services menu item:

Figure 11.3 – New Relic services – APM

Figure 11.3 – New Relic services – APM

  1. Next, click on the NEWRELIC_TDDPHP item on the dashboard. You’ll notice that this is the same PHP name we used in the /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/newrelic.ini file.
Figure 11.4 – newrelic.ini – newrelic.appname

Figure 11.4 – newrelic.ini – newrelic.appname

Once you are monitoring a lot of applications, these app names will come in very handy so it would be great if you could standardize your app names. You can read more about New Relic...