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Test-Driven Development with PHP 8

You're reading from   Test-Driven Development with PHP 8 Build extensible, reliable, and maintainable enterprise-level applications using TDD and BDD with PHP

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803230757
Length 336 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rainier Sarabia Rainier Sarabia
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Technical Background and Setup
2. Chapter 1: What Is Test-Driven Development and Why Use It in PHP? FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Understanding and Organizing the Business Requirements of Our Project 4. Chapter 3: Setting Up Our Development Environment Using Docker Containers 5. Chapter 4: Using Object-Oriented Programming in PHP 6. Part 2 – Implementing Test-Driven Development in a PHP Project
7. Chapter 5: Unit Testing 8. Chapter 6: Applying Behavior-Driven Development 9. Chapter 7: Building Solution Code with BDD and TDD 10. Chapter 8: Using TDD with SOLID Principles 11. Part 3 – Deployment Automation and Monitoring
12. Chapter 9: Continuous Integration 13. Chapter 10: Continuous Delivery 14. Chapter 11: Monitoring 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Building Solution Code with BDD and TDD

Now that we have gone through the fundamentals of writing test programs using test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development (BDD), we can start using both processes in developing our example application. When working on commercially successful and large-scale applications, one thing is common: they all need maintenance. There will always be room for improvement in terms of the product’s functionality. There could be some bugs that were missed, and—more commonly—more features to improve the product will continuously be added to the application. This is usually how badly written code gets worse. A nicely written class can end up being a god class: a class that can do everything with a few thousand lines of code. A developer can start writing additional functions inside the god class while another developer is using that class, therefore changing the class’s behavior. You can guess what happens next! A...

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