Comments on: Do PHP programmers care about testing? http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2005/10/18/do-php-programmers-care-about-testing/ Sam Newman's blog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:50:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Anonymous http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2005/10/18/do-php-programmers-care-about-testing/#comment-967 Anonymous Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:58:10 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/2005/10/18/do-php-programmers-care-about-testing/#comment-967 I recently left a Java XP team that did heavy testing, and went to a startup using PHP, and basically stopped writing tests. In java land we used a lot of frameworks and libraries, J2EE based with Struts, JSP, and with that came a lot of good testing patterns and frameworks (mock ejbs, struts action unit tests, httpunit/jwebunit). It just seems less structured in PHP, the testing patterns aren't developed yet, or if they are, they aren't widely known. I recently left a Java XP team that did heavy testing, and went to a startup using PHP, and basically stopped writing tests. In java land we used a lot of frameworks and libraries, J2EE based with Struts, JSP, and with that came a lot of good testing patterns and frameworks (mock ejbs, struts action unit tests, httpunit/jwebunit). It just seems less structured in PHP, the testing patterns aren’t developed yet, or if they are, they aren’t widely known.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2005/10/18/do-php-programmers-care-about-testing/#comment-966 Anonymous Wed, 19 Oct 2005 03:11:47 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/2005/10/18/do-php-programmers-care-about-testing/#comment-966 Some PHP programmers care about testing. Does the average PHP programmer care about automated testing? On average, probably not. Does the average Java or Ruby programmer care about automated testing? I dont know what the average is but again, probably not. If youre looking for automated testing in PHP check out SimpleTest. It has Mock Objects and Acceptance testing through a web tester. http://www.lastcraft.com/simple_test.php. Some PHP programmers care about testing. Does the average PHP programmer care about automated testing? On average, probably not. Does the average Java or Ruby programmer care about automated testing? I dont know what the average is but again, probably not.

If youre looking for automated testing in PHP check out SimpleTest. It has Mock Objects and Acceptance testing through a web tester.
http://www.lastcraft.com/simple_test.php.

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