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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have defined what TDD is and what it is not. We tried to relate TDD to simple everyday tasks such as cleaning certain parts of your home. By trying to clear up common misconceptions about TDD, hopefully, we will have a clearer understanding of what TDD is. TDD is a process; it’s not solely about writing unit tests and automated tests.

We also covered why we would want to use TDD when developing PHP applications. TDD helps us develop cleaner, decoupled, maintainable codes, and it helps us be more confident that we won’t introduce regressions whenever we release codes, thanks to the automated test coverage that is inherently built by following TDD.

In the next chapter, we will start building the example project by coming up with a simple hypothetical business challenge first and making sense of what needs to be built to solve the problem.