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PHP Security: Are you paying attention?

September 29, 2009

Development, PHP, Security

Security is a recurring topic when the talk is about Technology, or any other area for that matter.

PHPT: Writing tests for PHP

August 23, 2009

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:

Preparing the Environment
Choosing what to test
Writing a test
Executing a test
Submitting a test to PHP

Escrevendo testes com PHPT e contribuindo com o PHP

August 19, 2009

Este ano esteve em destaque a PHPTestFest09, sendo realizada em vários cantos do mundo e destacando-se a participação do PHPSP que contribuiu com o maior número de testes. Ficou de fora? Então já comece a se preparar para ano que vem.

O PHPT é um framework extremamente simples de testes criado e usado internamente pelos desenvolvedores do core. Ele é extremamente atômico e centrado em testes como os que esperamos do PHP, como testar funções e bugs específicos.

O que preciso saber?

A grande vantagem do PHPT é que para poder escrever um teste, tudo que você precisa saber é: como escrever código PHP. Claro que um pouco de conhecimento interno do funcionamento do PHP vai te ajudar a procurar detalhes para testar, mas sabendo escrever PHP você já pode contribuir com uma grande percentagem dos testes que precisamos.

Vamos então atacar por partes: