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Productive Slacking

• October 18, 2019

• Software / Systems, Tips and Tricks

Back in 2016 I joined Usabilla, just around the time we were evaluating our work chat solutions. Usabilla was at the time on Hipchat and Slack was the up and coming solution, with plenty of advanced features and goodies. I will not try to sell Slack here, but it clearly was the better contender and worth our move.

Como escrever artigos técnicos (melhores) em 10 passos

• September 27, 2011

• Dicas e Truques, PHP, Tecnologia e Internet

Blogs. A internet nos últimos anos tem visto o crescimento disparado destes sites, desde o desenvolvedor que escreve no finais de semana até o colunista que ganha para fazer isso. E não é por menos, eles são sim uma ótima ferramenta para divulgar seu trabalho e agregar valor ao seu nome no mercado, porém apenas se utilizado de forma correta. Vou me restringir obviamente a falar de blogs sobre tecnologia e desenvolvimento, embora outras áreas tenham muitas historias de sucesso desta plataforma também. Eu realmente não saberia como comentar por exemplo o mercado de esmaltes e como escrever artigos sobre eles.

PHPT: Writing tests for PHP

• August 23, 2009

• PHP

This year the PHP Community promoted the PHPTestFest in various places around the globe and it was a success. I participated in the event promoted by the PHPSP UG which ended up as the team with the most committed tests, after participating in the event I kept on going and have since obtained a SVN account and karma to be a official test commiter to PHP. So if you did not get the chance to learn how to write tests in your local TestFest I will now go over the steps taken so you can be ready for next year.

PHPT is a extremely simple test framework designed to test PHP. Its atomic nature and independent test execution make it perfect for the kind of tests needed, so tests can be really focused and test specific function and/or bugs.

What do I need to know?

The beauty about PHPT is that you need to know very little other than writing PHP code. A little knowledge into the inner workings of PHP will of course help you in finding areas of code that need testing, and how best to test them, but just knowing PHP is enough to start.

I have divided this post into 5 parts so we can get started:

1. Preparing the Environment
2. Choosing what to test
3. Writing a test
4. Executing a test
5. Submitting a test to PHP