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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

TDD with the Open-Closed Principle

The OCP was first defined by Bertrand Meyer, but in this chapter, we will follow the later version defined by Robert C. Martin, which is also called the polymorphic OCP.

The OCP states that objects should be open to extension and closed to modification. The aim is that we should be able to modify the behaviour or a feature by extending the original code instead of directly refactoring the original code. That’s great because that will help us developers and testers be more confident about the ticket we’re working on, as we haven’t touched the original code that might be used somewhere else – less risk of regression.

In our ToyCarCreateTest class, we are stubbing a validator object because we have not written a concrete validator class yet. There are a lot of different ways of implementing validation, but for this example, we’ll try to make it very simple. Let’s go back to the code and create a validator...