If you are reading this then you understand that unit testing is important. We can manually test if an application[...]

HTTP layer stub that facilitates testing Guzzle-supported API clients

Let's take a fresh look at PHPUnit - the de-facto TDD tool for PHP. We'll explain TDD on an example, implement code coverage, and more!

In the introduction to this series I mentioned that testing object interactions can be really hard. Most unit testing tutorials cover this subject by introducing the PHPUnit mocking sub-framework. The word “mock” in the context of PHPUnit is given the meaning…

How to create a GitHub workflow from scratch for Laravel 7 with service containers (MySQL) and managing secrets

Common constructor problems will be caught by your static analyzer | Exposing state breaks encapsulation | The test doesn't explain why you need the property assignments | Replace the constructor unit test with some higher-level test | What if I just want…

By creating your own fakes, you can free yourself from using mocking frameworks. Find out how you can benefit from it.

PHPUnit data providers are cool, but there are ways to make them even cooler.... by crell

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One Class, One Test | UI Tests | Good Tests | Test Debt

Unit tests vs automated scenarios | Writing scenario-style unit tests | The Friends convention for test method names | Testing at higher abstraction levels

A Platonic concept of object-oriented programming | Classes are arbitrary things | An Aristotelian alternative

The complexity here is not about writing tests itself, but the habits that we have to change to create software that is easy to be tested.

Pest is a great testing framework built on top of PHPUnit. It has an elegant syntax simplifying your tests as much as possible.

Unit testing itself is rather easy once you understand how to do it. Even test driven or behavior driven development is easy one mastered… at least for the ideal scenario. What is the ideal scenario then? It is a unit test where the class under test has no…

Easily inspect incoming HTTP Requests. Contribute to beyondcode/httpdump development by creating an account on GitHub.