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[nycphp-talk] Unit testing

Aaron Fischer agfische at email.smith.edu
Fri Mar 26 16:59:07 EST 2004


Really David, if you want to remove your Phundies and play with your 
PHPUnit I think that's entirely up to you.

-Aaron

On Mar 26, 2004, at 4:56 PM, David Mintz wrote:

> I'd be curious to learn how much you guys use unit testing with 
> something
> like PHPUnit. I have played with it, and it is satisfying, but i 
> haven't
> fully found religion, haven't gone to the X(P)treme of literally 
> writing
> the test *before*  the code the test tests.
>
> It surely isn't a panacea and there seem to be cases where a 
> "traditional"
> test (does this page fetch a row of data and display it? load it in a
> browser and look at the output) is as good, maybe even more 
> appropriate,
> than a PHPUnit test.
>
> Perhaps... an idea for a presentation and/or Phundies topic?
>
> ---
> David Mintz
> http://davidmintz.org/




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