Rendezvous with Dr. Venkat at Xebia

Learning is a continuous process, and even though we practice Test First Development and Agile religiously,  there is no dearth of things to learn about them. So, keeping this in mind, Xebia organized a session by Dr Venkat Subramanium on Test First Development this Sunday(24th April) at Xebia India Office. Dr Venkat Subramaniam is the [...]

Junit Tests – The Myths Around Coverage

Nowadays when Agile is on its peak and Junit tests hijack the technical discussions. Its very easy to find people obsessed with Junits. You can really sense the excitement in people when they talk about Junits. I consider this as one of the major achievements of the Agile promoters. They have been really successful in [...]

Maven Based Automated Execution of FitNium Acceptance Tests

Intent To automate execution of the FitNium acceptance tests and generate reports using maven. This is particularly useful in test driven and continuous integration environment. Motivation In one of the recent projects we wanted to integrate FitNium acceptance tests with maven based build system.We were using FitNium as it allows us to write and execute [...]

Test Driven Development with Zend Framework and PHPUnit

Over the past few days I was going through the Zend Framework reference docs and I found myself pleasantly surprised with all that the latest version of this web application framework provides. My first thought was to just acknowledge the speed in which PHP as a technology has been maturing. Out of the many new [...]

JEE to PHPEE

PHP is becoming better day by day. As I proceed in my path of catching up with recent developments in PHP, I see more and more of adaption in PHP from JEE(Java Enterprise Edition) world. To begin with, I stumbled upon the unit testing framework PHPUnit. The amount of familiarity with the J2EE world is [...]