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Mastering PHP 7

You're reading from   Mastering PHP 7 Design, configure, build, and test professional web applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785882814
Length 536 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. The All New PHP FREE CHAPTER 2. Embracing Standards 3. Error Handling and Logging 4. Magic Behind Magic Methods 5. The Realm of CLI 6. Prominent OOP Features 7. Optimizing for High Performance 8. Going Serverless 9. Reactive Programming 10. Common Design Patterns 11. Building Services 12. Working with Databases 13. Resolving Dependencies 14. Working with Packages 15. Testing the Important Bits 16. Debugging, Tracing, and Profiling 17. Hosting, Provisioning, and Deployment

Behat

Behat is an open source and free testing framework based on a notion of behavior-driven development (BDD). The great benefit of the BDD frameworks, including Behat, is that a significant portion of the functional documentation gets poured into the actual user stories we end up testing. That is, to some extent, the documentation itself becomes a test.

Setting up Behat

Much like PHPUnit, Behat can be installed as a tool and library. The tool version being the .phar archive, we can download it from the official GitHub repository, where the library version comes packed as a Composer package.

Assuming that we are using the Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) installation, installing the Behat as a tool is...

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