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Clean Code in PHP

By : Carsten Windler, Alexandre Daubois
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Book Image

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

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed why you should use automated testing and how it improves your code quality. We covered the main three testing types, which are unit testing, integration testing, and E2E testing, with their pros and cons, potential pitfalls, and our recommendations on how to use them. Finally, you learned about the concept of code coverage, and how to use it in your own projects.

Together with the knowledge from the previous chapter about code quality tools and how to organize them, in the next chapter, we can finally start combining all these tools together into a process that helps to run all of them in structured and reliable ways—build pipelines.