Testing covers practical approaches to software testing, including writing effective tests, improving test quality, and using testing tools and techniques to ensure reliable and maintainable code.
Database logic is one of the hardest parts of an application to test properly. Not because it is exotic or complex, but because it sits at the intersection of business rules, data consistency, performance, and evolution over time. In real…
Practical Strategies for Testing Real-World PHP Projects Testing legacy Laravel code without refactoring is one of the hardest problems in real-world PHP projects. Most of us don’t join greenfield projects. We inherit applications that grew organically over years, feature by…
Modern PHP applications rely on many external components: APIs, databases, file systems, random generators, time providers, and services that communicate with the outside world.When writing tests, you rarely want to interact with these real services. Doing so would make your…