Hopefully by now, you know that testing is important, and you've integrated PHPUnit into your workflow. (If not, go watch one of those talks.) So now what??
In this "testing 202" course, we'll explore some features of PHPUnit you may not be using (but should), some techniques you may not have thought of, and how to extend PHPUnit yourself for your own nefarious testing purposes. And we'll answer the question, "so what are traits actually good for"?
Larry Garfield has been building websites since he was a sophomore in high school, which is longer ago than he'd like to admit. Larry was most recently Principal Engineer at MakersHub. He has also been a Staff Engineer at both TYPO3 and LegalZoom, and Director of Developer Experience for Platform.sh. A long-time Drupal contributor and consultant, Larry led the Drupal 8 Web Services initiative that helped transform Drupal into a modern PHP platform. Larry is a member of the PHP-FIG Core Committee, co-author of several PHP RFCs, and has authored several books on PHP development including "Thinking Functionally in PHP" and "Exploring PHP 8.0."
Larry holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from DePaul University. He blogs occasionally at https://www.garfieldtech.com.
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