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CakePHP Test Fixture Factories

datasyncer@sandsmedia.com — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 10:18:01 +0000

CakePHP is known for featuring a powerful and intuitive convention-based Object Relational Mapper. But like many PHP frameworks, it shows limitations in the management of test fixtures.

One approach consists in loading or emulating a database dump before each test is run. Another one creates the test fixtures with the help of factories inside each test.

The first approach breaks the rule of test independence, and leads to opaque tests. We investigated the second approach, which delivers more intelligible tests. But as a trade off, tests got slower to write.

Really slower? No. Thanks to the CakePHP ORM, we came up with an efficient method to write test fixtures on the fly: the CakePHP Fixture Factories. Tests are fast to write and document ideally your application. The package drastically increases the tests’ speed by offering the possibility to create entities without persistence.

On the journey we developed a trigger-based PHPUnit test listener in order to refresh test databases prior to each test.

Whether you are a CakePHP developer or not, the presentation will provide insights on how to arrange your tests and manage your test fixtures.

Juan Pablo Ramirez – Nicolas Masson
https://github.com/vierge-noire/cakephp-fixture-factories
https://github.com/vierge-noire/cakephp-test-suite-light

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Acceptance Tests Best Pratice – Live Coding Codeception

datasyncer@sandsmedia.com — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 14:00:32 +0000

Funktionen in einer PHP-Anwendung erfordern verschiedene Arten von Tests, um sicherzustellen, dass alles gut läuft. Mit dem Codeception-Framework ist es sehr einfach, diese Testsuiten einzurichten und auszuführen.
In dieser Live-Coding-Session werden wir Acceptance-, API- und PHPUnit-Tests für eine Symfony-Anwendung durchführen.

Akzeptanztests werden die tatsächlichen User Stories mit verschiedenen Browsern und Benutzerinteraktionen testen. Das Frontend ist das Ergebnis aller Technologien.
Man kann also sagen, dass Ihre Infrastruktur gut funktioniert und auch das Frontend mit seinem eigenen Multiple-Technology-Stack gut läuft.
Dies ist auch eine Möglichkeit, Legacy-Anwendungen zu testen und eine Build-Pipeline einzurichten.

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Lessons learned from building Sulu 2.0

datasyncer@sandsmedia.com — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 06:51:13 +0000

After more then 2,5 years of development we have finally released a new major release of our OpenSource Content Management System build on top of Symfony. That’s a very long time, and we have totally underestimated how much work it will be. However, this allowed us to learn a lot of different lessons, from many different areas. Some concern how to plan such a project, how to handle certain restrictions or software architecture. In this talk I would like to tell you about as many as of these lessons as possible.

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WordPress for Modern Developers

datasyncer@sandsmedia.com — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 10:59:40 +0000

WordPress may poser a third of the web, but it’s one of the world’s most popular legacy projects. So if you’re a modern web developer but you’re forced to use WordPress, what are your options?

This talk explores the tools and frameworks that are available to enable modern development in a legacy project, and how to make WordPress development feel like working with a modern framework. It also explores just how far you can push the “magic” of WordPress when it comes to theme development.

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Reformat, Refactor, Replace

datasyncer@sandsmedia.com — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 11:59:39 +0000

When your everyday grind is a monolithic, legacy, PHP application from the early 2000s, it can be hard to utilise the newer tools and technologies that are available. Fortunately, there’s a process you can follow to get your application up to date without losing customers, business logic, or your mind. This talk covers the tried-and-true...

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Framework agnostic application – will it fit with Symfony?

datasyncer@sandsmedia.com — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 13:38:00 +0000

Frameworks are great tools. And Symfony is my beloved one. A lot of developers learn from them how to write applications nowadays. But framework documentation shows you framework approach. There is nothing wrong, as it’s framework documentation job. Unfortunately, a lot of developers don’t look for any other architecture approaches. They stick with what they have seen in framework documentation. During this talk, you will see how the application and domain layers could look in a framework-agnostic approach. Usage of ports and adapters architecture will help us with that. What is more interesting, it’s easy to integrate application decoupled from the framework with that kind of tool. You will see that on an example of Symfony. And from the time that we have Symfony Flex on board, it’s even easier in that case.

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Detecting and preventing performance regressions in code.

datasyncer@sandsmedia.com — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:38:00 +0000

Change is a part of life. After you are done with your code it will evolve in time. Those modifications are not always performed by you (the author) that knows that code inside out. Sometimes there are done in a hurry or without detailed specification. Because of that, in time, that code may become less efficient. It might need more time, more CPU or more memory. In this talk, I will walk you through and demonstrate an open-source tool that I’m working on from some time – a greatly enhanced fork of a well-known tool. It will show you when your code starts to deteriorate and It will help you to keep it in great shape.

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PSR-14: A Major PHP Event

datasyncer@sandsmedia.com — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 13:31:30 +0000

PSR-14 is the latest specification from the PHP Framework Interoperability Group (PHP-FIG), this time addressing event dispatching. Many frameworks and applications contain an "event dispatcher", "message bus", "hook system", or some other variation on the same basic concept, but to date they are all incompatible with each other. No more! The PSR-14 spec offers a way to interweave these disparate systems, making it far easier to swap individual libraries into the framework of your choice. It goes beyond the basic "register and call" object that most systems use to make it easier to plug different implementations together, offering an easier experience and greater flexibility for library authors. This session will cover how PSR-14 works, some examples of how to leverage it effectively, and how to adopt it alongside, and even encompassing, your existing one-off tooling.

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How Much Framework? #slideless

datasyncer@sandsmedia.com — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 13:31:30 +0000

Choosing a framework is not an easy task: How good is the documentation? How many developers are actively working on it and how long has it been around? Interesting and valid questions but not necessarily the most important ones. How much of a framework do we actually need? And how crucial will it be for our application? In this session, we’ll try to answer these two questions in a potentially surprising way: by implementing our own micro framework from scratch – in 45 minutes!

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Crafting Maintainable Laravel Applications

datasyncer@sandsmedia.com — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 13:31:24 +0000

Many applications are crafted in ways that decrease their future maintainability. Using a framework doesn’t resolve this issue. In fact, it might make it worse. After facilitating the upgrade of over 20,000 Laravel applications, I’m here to tell you how to ensure your application will stand the test of time. In this talk, I’ll show...

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