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Test-Driven Development with PHP 8

By : Rainier Sarabia
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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

Jira to BDD to TDD

The SOLID principles, as defined by Robert C. Martin, are a set of coding guidelines or standards that help developers write more organized, decoupled, maintainable, extensible software. In this chapter, we’ll go through them one by one, but we will try to simulate the process by working on a real project and then implementing each of the principles.

In this chapter, we will be writing solution code that will try to adhere to the SOLID principles, but before that, we need an example problem to solve. As we did in Chapter 7, Building Solution Code with BDD and TDD, we’ll start with a Jira ticket, write some Gherkin features, write Behat tests, write integration and unit tests, and then write the SOLID-adhering solution code as depicted in the following flowchart:

Figure 8.1 – Development flow

Figure 8.1 – Development flow

Let’s use one of the Jira tickets we created in Chapter 2, Understanding and Organizing the Business Requirements...