[ciapug] Resources from last night's talk

[Eric Junker]

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> found. I've just not been able to grasp how to go from the "hello
> world" of testing to building it into my application. Especially web
> applications, since there's little mention of unit testing for the
> web.

I believe several PHP frameworks include a unit testing framework. For 
example, Symfony has one called lime. Other popular unit test frameworks 
for PHP are: PhpUnit and Simpletest. I used SimpleTest on my last 
project and found it very useful. For every bug I found I wrote a unit 
test to make sure I never had that bug again. Unit testing also allows 
you to refactor and be confident that you didn't break anything.

For unit testing an MVC app I think the most important thing to test is 
the models. Some say that a true unit test should not touch the database 
so they use test fixtures or mock objects to decouple the test from the 
database.

Eric