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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

To get the most out of this book

The instructions in the book are Unix based. The development machine used as an example host machine in the book runs on MacOS 12.3 and should work on later versions as well. However, the Docker containers should also run on Windows and Linux machines.

Software/hardware covered in the book

Operating system requirements

Docker

macOS, Linux, or Windows

PHP 8.1

Linux

MySQL 8

Linux

PHPStorm

macOS, Linux, or Windows

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code from the book’s GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.