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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

Technical requirements

This chapter requires you to have access to Bash. If you are using a Mac or Linux OS, you can just use terminal. If you’re on a Windows OS, you will need to install a third-party Bash program.

For the instructions defined in this chapter, you can experiment with the complete Docker setup found in Chapter 3 Git repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Test-Driven-Development-with-PHP-8/tree/main/Chapter%203.

Quick Setup

To run the complete development setup with Docker containers for this chapter, in a macOS development machine, follow the instructions in this chapter to install Docker Desktop, and then simply run the following command from your terminal:

curl -Lo phptdd.zip "https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Test-Driven-Development-with-PHP-8/tree/main/Chapter%203.zip" && unzip -o phptdd.zip && cd complete && ./demoSetup.sh