BDD With PHPSpec

PHPSpec allows us to test our objects in a different way than tools like PHPUnit do. Rather than focussing on testing the implementation of objects we'll test the behavior. In this talk I'll do a live coding session where we'll go over the practical usage of PHPSpec to test your objects.

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1. BDD With PHPSpec
2. Dries 4 BeatSwitch.com 4 Laravel.IO 4 Laracon EU 4 driesvints.com
3. Who writes tests?
4. Reasons Excuses why you're not testing 4 Testing is hard 4 Testing takes too much time 4 Testing won't allow me to make my deadline 4 Achieving 100% coverage is hard 4 Testing only works when used with CI 4 (fictitious) Testing is black magic
5. Meet PHPSpec 4 Easy to setup 4 Write specifications for your objects 4 Test in isolation through mocking 4 Start from the implementation (the how)
6. Not Covered 4 Prophecy 4 Behat
7. Let's test something!
8. If you can't test your object with PHPSpec, you're probably doing something wrong
9. Questions?
11. Thanks! 4 @driesvints 4 driesvints.com 4 Joind.in: http://joind.in/talk/view/12534