Accelerate your development of PHP applications using the popular CakePHP web application development framework and unit testing. This short book shows you how to carry out test-driven development with fixtures, model tests, controller tests, mocks, and test suites. Learn CakePHP contains all you need to get started with the CakePHP framework to build faster, better PHP-based web applications.
You'll learn about unit testing and how to implement it in CakePHP. This approach to coding leads to better code, better applications, and better programming habits. With this knowledge your PHP skills will go from strength to strength allowing you to write more and improved code.
What you'll learn
- What is unit testing and CakePHP and how to put the two together
- What is clean coding
- What is TDD and the development cycle using this approach
- How to work with fixtures, model tests, text callbacks, controller tests, and more
- How to do mocks, test suites, testing from the command line and more
- How to work with code coverage, fixtures data, and private methods
Who this book is for
This book is for experienced PHP programmers and web developers who have little or no experience using CakePHP and/or unit testing.
Auflage
Sprache
Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Popular/general
Editions-Typ
Produkt-Hinweis
Broschur/Paperback
Klebebindung
Illustrationen
18
18 farbige Abbildungen, 18 s/w Abbildungen
XXIV, 114 p. 36 illus., 18 illus. in color.
Maße
Höhe: 238 mm
Breite: 159 mm
Dicke: 13 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-4842-1213-4 (9781484212134)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4842-1212-7
Schweitzer Klassifikation
rrd started to code for the web in plain HTML in 1998 at the college. As the web evolved, he turned to PHP, then to Javascript. As mobile technologies arrived, he started to play with Java for android development.He's a big fan of CakePHP and jQuery frameworks, open source, and pizza. All of them are there in his web development.
1. What is Unit Testing?.- 2. What is CakePHP?.- 3. Clean Code.- 4. Test Driven Development.- 5. Development Cycle.- 6. Preparing for Testing.- 7. Fixtures.- 8. Model Tests.- 9. Controller Tests 1.- 10. Mocks.- 11. Controller Tests 2.- 12. Test Suites.- 13. Testing from Command Line.- 14. Goodies.- Appendix A.
