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Clean Code in PHP

By : Carsten Windler, Alexandre Daubois
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Clean Code in PHP

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By: Carsten Windler, Alexandre Daubois

Overview of this book

PHP is a beginner-friendly language, but also one that is rife with complaints of bad code,;yet no clean code books are specific to PHP. Enter Clean Code in PHP. This book is a one-stop guide to learning the theory and best practices of clean code specific to real-world PHP app development environments. This PHP book is cleanly split to help you navigate through coding practices and theories to understand and adopt the nuances of the clean code paradigm. In addition to covering best practices, tooling for code quality, and PHP design patterns, this book also presents tips and techniques for working on large-scale PHP apps with a team and writing effective documentation for your PHP projects. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to write human-friendly PHP code, which will fuel your PHP career growth and set you apart from the competition.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Introducing Clean Code
8
Part 2 – Maintaining Code Quality

Types of automated tests

Although unit tests are probably the most known type of automated testing, there is more to discover. In this section, we will introduce the most common (and important) test types. A well-known testing concept is the testing pyramid, which is shown here:

Figure 10.1: Testing pyramid

This concept basically shows three types of tests—namely, end-to-end tests (or E2E tests in short), integration tests, and unit tests. We will explain each test type and its position in the testing pyramid in the following sections.

Unit tests

As the name implies, unit tests are about testing small units of code. It is best practice to write one test for each functionality of an object only; otherwise, the tests will become bigger and harder to understand and maintain. This keeps the tests small as well, and that is why there is usually a lot of them. Depending on the project size, having hundreds or thousands of unit tests is completely normal...