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Chris Shiflett

Chris Shiflett is an author and speaker who leads the web application security practice at OmniTI.

Agile PHP Testing at PHP Quebec

Next week, I'll be speaking at PHP Quebec in Montreal about testing PHP applications. Agile PHP Testing is a new talk that focuses on really simple approaches to testing, and I hope to demonstrate how creating a test suite is close to what you're probably already doing anyway.

Most PHP testing frameworks don't seem to follow the "PHP way" of solving problems as simply and directly as possible. Isn't there a better way? I think so. You won't learn a lot of testing theory in this talk - there's no time for that. Instead, I show you how to get right down to business and test your PHP applications with a simple PHP testing library and some straightforward testing practices.

PHP Quebec has a grassroots feel to it, and I had a blast last year. Toby's photos can give you a feel for the conference.

I hope to see you there.

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Agile PHP Testing at PHP Quebec was posted on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 at 18:35:03 GMT.

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1. MIke Willbanks's GravatarMIke Willbanks said:

Will you be publishing this talk at all for us fellows that are't going to be able to make it :)

I find that most unit testing is overkill for most php applications even if they are larger in scale so I tend to revert to a much small way of testing. I would be interested to see exactly how you are doing the test suite ;)

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 at 07:29:43 GMT Link

2. Chris Shiflett's GravatarChris Shiflett said:

Sure, I'll provide a PDF of the slides, and I might try to do another webcast (or screencast or whatever people call them).

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 at 13:31:43 GMT Link

3. Mark Hemingway's GravatarMark Hemingway said:

Hi Chris - any chance of that PDF? I'd be very interested to see your approach!

Mark

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 at 11:31:14 GMT Link

4. Chris Shiflett's GravatarChris Shiflett said:

http://brainbulb.com/agile-php-testing.pdf

The slides on this are particularly bare compared to the talk itself. I plan on reworking the slides to be a bit more informative, but that's not very high on my priority list. :-)

Please feel free to ask questions!

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 at 17:03:05 GMT Link

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