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Real-World Solutions for Developing High-Quality PHP Frameworks and Applications
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From the Back Cover
Develop high-quality applications and frameworks in PHP
PHP has risen to become one of the most popular programming languages in the world, making high-quality, sustainable applications and frameworks created in PHP more sought after than ever. Using real-world case studies from well-known companies, this valuable book presents the planning, execution, and automation of tests for the different layers and tiers of a web software architecture and explains how these companies measure and test the quality of their software. The authors and contributing PHP experts offer varying opinions as to how problems are solved so that you can benefit from different approaches prior to developing your own apps and frameworks in PHP.
Real-World Solutions for Developing High-Quality PHP Frameworks and Applications:
Looks at the characteristics of good internal and external software quality
Shares techniques for writing new code, changing and optimizing existing code, and finding and fixing bugs
Reveals bad testing practices so you know what to avoid
Addresses how to test service-oriented APIs, a WebDAV server, and many PHP frameworks
Reviews large-scale selenium-based testing and testing database interaction
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About the Author
Sebastian Bergmann is a cofounder of The PHP Consulting Company. He is a thought leader on software quality assurance and author of PHPUnit and various other tools. He is a sought-after speaker at conferences around the world.
Stefan Priebsch is a cofounder of The PHP Consulting Company, helping customers to improve their development processes and make better use of PHP. He is the author of various books and a frequent speaker at IT conferences.
22/09/2011
Disclaimer: I was sent a free copy for review.
I am not a big believer in programming books. Over the years I have seen only a few that were worth reading, but Real-World Solutions (perhaps a shorter title would be nice...) is a great read. Read not reference. Most programming related books end up as "reference" which is generally useless in the world of Google and StackOverflow. Real-World Solutions is meant to be read, perhaps while looking at your own code and trying a few things out. I also suggest scanning sections that do not apply to you, or you have already mastered.
Most of the book focuses on testing. Unit testing primarily and this could be very dull. However the choice to have stories from real implementations taught PHP programmer who wants to find some holes in knowledge (like me!)
Teachers who want to give students a programming book they might actually read.
A manager of programmers trying to find new ways to increase code quality.
12/06/2011
Finally a book written for serious PHP application developers. This book really gets it. Using Test-Driven Development from the very first chapter, the book explains practical TDD such as using in-memory databases. There are clear examples of stubs and mocks. Caring so much about TDD, this book also teaches how to write proper Object-oriented Code, utilizing proven best practices and design patterns.
As if that weren't enough, this book also covers PHP frameworks but -as there weren't yet any reviews written for it on Amazon.
After reading the first chapter alone--where the authors quote "Uncle Bob's" Clean Code book--I had a good feeling that I was reading something that would finally help PHP developers write truly good code.
I haven't made it through the whole book yet but it has already earned its way as my favorite PHP book, and I have read a lot of them over the last several years.
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