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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803230757

Length 336 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Symfony

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Rainier Sarabia

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

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

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