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[nycphp-talk] Unit testing

Chris Hubbard chubbard at next-online.net
Fri Mar 26 20:16:45 EST 2004


David,
I do a lot of unit testing.  I've used the PEAR unit test package and, well,
um.  didn't like it much.  I am using and really really like the Simple_Test
package.

If you want I can send samples.

Chris

On 3/26/04 1:56 PM, "David Mintz" <dmintz at davidmintz.org> 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?
> 
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