PHP: Test-Driven Development with PHPUnit

Course details

Develop better software with less bugs, and save more time for developing new features, with test-driven development. This course takes developers from writing their first unit test in PHPUnit to improving code coverage in their applications. Justin Yost covers writing test doubles to deal with dependencies in software, writing exception-based tests, and rapidly adding test cases to the core suite of unit tests. Developers will come away with a basic understanding of the test-driven development (TDD) cycle and understand how to use unit tests to write code, as well as refactor legacy code.

Learning objectives
Why use unit testing?
Writing unit tests
Extending unit tests
Filtering PHPUnit tests
Building dummy objects
Working with data providers
Writing an exception-based test
Using TDD tactics
Using PHPUnit advanced tactics, such as database tests

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know
03 - How to use the exercise files

1. The Basics of Test-Driven Development

04 - What is unit testing
05 - Why use unit testing
06 - Automated vs. manual testing
07 - Install PHPUnit
08 - Write a unit test
09 - Extend a unit test
10 - Write a test-driven development method
11 - Filter PHPUnit tests

2. Advanced Test-Driven Development

12 - Test doubles overview
13 - Build a dummy object
14 - Build a test stub
15 - Test mock
16 - Data providers
17 - Advanced data providers
18 - Write an exception-based test

3. Test-Driven Development Tactics

19 - The test-driven development cycle
20 - Advantages of TDD
21 - Refactor with TDD
22 - Decouple code with TDD

4. PHPUnit Advanced Tactics

23 - Code coverage basics
24 - Advanced code coverage
25 - Database tests

Conclusion

26 - Next steps