I mentioned earlier today that I am at that I am at the PHP London Conference. And I just found out something new about PHP that I wanted to share.
Apparently PHP has quality assurance. That is to say, there are a team of contributers dedicated to QA for PHP. One of the members, Zoe Slattery from IBM gave a talk here today with the superb name “test||die”.
Anyone who has compiled PHP from source should be aware that there is a test suite for PHP, but fewer are likley to know that it is actively maintained.
All the tests use standard PHP, so if you know PHP, you can contribute tests. Check out qa.php.net for more information. (I didn’t even know that website existed).
29/02/2008 at 9:07pm Permalink
Indeed, and a good QA. Actually, anyone that develops on the core of PHP knows that there are a test suite, and that you have to use it. If you don’t, you either get reverted or told to do your tests and run your tests on the public list.
PHP’s run-tests developer-testing-tool has received many talks by Marcus Boerger and has been presented many time.
There are many things that are “unknown” to the wide public but as soon as you start coding a little, you are being directed towards those great tools and the great team.
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23/03/2008 at 10:35am Permalink
WOW, I didn’t know that either! Thank for sharing it! These conferences are useful eh?
27/09/2008 at 4:24pm Permalink
Never knew this!
Great blog! keep up the good work, will be reading more into PHP’s Quality Assurance (and the secret website)