Quality Assurance

Ondřej Mirtes, the creator of PHPStan, have announced in a tweet a new feature available for PHPStan. Now you'll be able to check the compatibility of your codebases without even having...

Sitepoint have interesting introduction to the latest Laravel 5.4 testing library : Dusk. Dusk is meant for end to end browser testing of modern JavaScript applications, and you will see in this...

Already 25 votes in favour of the new PSR-7 : HTTP message interfaces, which makes the new PHP standard recommendation accepted according to the PHP-FIG rules. Matthew Weier O'Phinney summarized changes...

GrumPHP is a code quality tool for PHP, available as a composer plugin under an MIT license. GrumPHP will register some git hooks in your package repository. When somebody commits...

Sebastian Bergmann, author of PHPUnit, shared an interesting story on phpcc about his experience with caching in PHPUnit. The idea is that caching usually is a solution for making things faster,...

Yesterday, Fabien Potencier submitted a pull request to the PHP-FIG requesting to remove Symfony with a note : "no description provided". According to Fabien, everything seems to be great with the...

Just like SimpleTest or PHPUnit, Atoum is a unit testing framework specific to the PHP programming language. However, it has been designed from the start with the following ideas in mind: Rapid implementation, Simplify test...

Cachet is a beautiful and powerful open source status page system written in PHP/Laravel. It requires PHP7, composer and support MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite as databases. Cachet provides with a set...

It is often tempting to skip unit testing for ad-hoc testing. However when done in the appropriate amount unit testing will increase productivity and reliability. It is also a great diagnostic...

In a new tutorial on NetTuts+, Zizaco Zizuini wrote an advanced first tutorial titled "Testing like a Boss in Laravel" : Version 4 of Laravel offers serious improvements in relation to testing,...