Monthly Archives: November 2013

PHP phpspec Testing

phpspec keeps your privates hidden

11th November 2013 – 12:33 pm

For the last few days I’ve been using phpspec to build an application. Inevitably comparisons will be drawn between phpspec and PHPUnit, but I think that one clear distinction is found by considering how phpspec prevents the direct testing of a private method. read more »

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PHP phpspec TDD Testing

Considering what to test with phpspec

8th November 2013 – 9:38 am

I have recently started using phpspec in place of PHPUnit as a PHP development tool. So far for me, the transition from TDD to specBDD is a fairly trivial one. The vocabulary used in the specs is slightly different to xUnit tools, and this seems to make me think more carefully about what I really want to test, or better, what behaviour I want my object to exhibit. read more »

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