Show Notes

Phillip and Vinai talk about the journey to TDD and how to test effectively in Magento

• 2:30 Getting started in TDD
• 11:00 Moving away from EcomDev PHPUnit
• 12:45 Testing without fixtures
• 16:40 Mocking
• 18:55 Testing setup scripts
• 21:45 Testing boilerplate code
• 23:14 Bad habits broken because of testing
• 24:30 Treating the framework as a plugin
• 28:10 Decoupling from ORM
• 32:36 TDD with Magento2
• 33:44 Advice for newcomers on getting started with TDD

Links

• Ivan Chepurnyi
• EcomDev
• Alistair Stead
• PHPUnit
• Algorithms in Perl
• Groups catalog module
• Martin Fowler
• Robert C Martin (a.k.a Uncle Bob)
• Kent Beck
• James Cowie
• PHPSpec
• Zend
• Laravel
• Vitaly Golomoziy [LinkedIn profile]

Host

• Phillip Jackson – @philwinkle

Guest

• Vinai Kopp – @vinaikopp