The journey can begin … yes, I’m starting test driven development using Zend Framework 1.10. I’m already a little advance with PHPUnit. With the Zend Framework I’m more experienced. While I was studying OnlineMedien at the Hochschule Furtwangen University I already taught my fellow students using the Zend Framework. At university I developed a tiny guest book to show the participants of my course how to use the Zend Framework.
In my free time I already created an on CMS based on the Zend Framework. My now my CMS reached the second version. In Germany there’s a byword saying: “Aller guten Dinge sind Drei” what means “All good things comes in threes”. Therefore my third version has to be special!
How to start TTD with the Zend Framework
According Test Driven Development I’m an absolute beginner. I’ve never created an application in a test driven way before. Therefore my first step to create a test driven application is to do a research. Thereby I located the following website that looks quite nice:
- The three rules of TTD
- TDD with Zend Framework – Getting started
- TDD with Zend Framework – Testing Controllers
- TDD with Zend Framework – Mocks and Stubs
- TDD with Zend Framework – Wrapping up the controller
- Set up a Zend Framework application using Zend_Application (including PHPUnit setup)
- Unit Testing with the Zend Framework with Zend_Test and PHPUnit
The following days I will go through these links step by step. The last link I will even check tonight. It’s a screen cast. Therefore I can lay back and relax, open a bottle of Grolsch and take a look at the screen cast.
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