Alejandro Celaya | Blog

A couple of years ago I wrote about how to capture code coverage in API tests. In that article I explained the implications of code coverage collection when the code under test does not run in the same process as the test itself. However, the process explained there was a bit hacky and limited to AP…

You can find an improved version of what's described here in Capturing remote code coverage in E2E tests with PHPUnit Capturing code coverage for a test suite is a very useful way to know which parts of your source code are actually getting executed by tests. This is useful not only to know if you…

There's no doubt that having tests in a project allows you to find potential bugs earlier and more easily. Lots of OSS projects require a minimum code coverage in order to accept new pull requests from contributors, and proprietary projects also tend to have some sort of continuous integration workf…

Docker is, without any doubt, the trending tool these days. Everybody wants to use it, because it is very useful, allowing to easily generate development environments for any kind of application. A couple months ago I started working with docker myself (it has taken me a while, I know), and now I ca…

One of the first articles I wrote in this blog was an introduction to unit testing PHP applications. You can find it here in case you need to know the first steps and the theory. On this article I'm going to explain how to get a Zend Framework 2 module tested. It is indeed very similar to test any P…

Nowadays we are in the era of agile methodologies. One of the best practices promoted by these methodologies is Test-Driven Development (TDD) It mainly consists on preparing small pieces of code that are responsible for testing parts of the real application. For this purpose each of the main program…