Technical stuff Requirements are like water. They're easier to build on when they're frozen.

-> Continuous Integration —> build automation [write build script to get latest code version; run tools to detect problems; run unit tests & publish these results; package; deploy] —> summary of the tools enumerated below can be found in this presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/sebastian_bergmann/continuous-integration-of-php-projects-4354597 -> static code analysis —> LOC [= lines of code] metric —> CLOC ...

-> what is SW quality? -> the BankAccount example —> PHPUnit 3.4.12 is used for these examples —> CLI run using phpunit BankAccountTest —> phpunit –testdox BankAccountTest —> used for instance to present functionality summary before the actual coding —> setUp() —> Q&A —> use @expectedException annotation instead of the try/catch block inside the method ...

So, we need to find out different values of a column and the number of their occurrences. Let’s set up a small test first: -- Step #1: prepare the ground CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `test`; DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `test`.`test_count_distinct`; CREATE TABLE `test`.`test_count_distinct` ( `id` INT(11) NOT NULL auto_increment PRIMARY KEY, `title` VARCHAR(50) NOT ...

Customer: Web professionals are no good when they come up with a nice, clean, web 2.0 interface for my site, if what I have in mind is a big logo, many different fonts, no whitespace, and a rainbow of colors. Just make my logo bigger since I’m paying for this, right? Well, I had a ...

Frank Cohen presents how to use different open source test frameworks to test web applications. ...

There are explained several options one has when trying to run IE6 and IE7 on the same machine. ...