Viraj Khatavkar wrote this blog post showing how to use Integrated Package for better testing in CakePHP. Testing in general is not a simple subject, so anything to assist with it is very very welcome.
I’m sure we’ll be trying it at work in the next week or two.
BitBucket blog announces the support for scheduled Bitbucket Pipelines. This is super cool and has been on the wishlist for a while now. Here are a few examples of how this feature is useful:
- Nightly builds that take longer to run
- Daily or weekly deployments to a test environment
- Data validation and backups
- Load tests and tracking performance over time
- Jobs and tasks that aren’t coupled to code changes
Making “Push on Green” a Reality is an insider look at how Google handles continuous deployment. Very few teams and companies need to deal with such level of complexity, but the overall principals still probably apply.
Updating production software is a process that may require dozens, if not hundreds, of steps. These include creating and testing new code, building new binaries and packages, associating the packages with a versioned release, updating the jobs in production datacenters, possibly modifying database schemata, and testing and verifying the results. There are boxes to check and approvals to seek, and the more automated the process, the easier it becomes. When releases can be made faster, it is possible to release more often, and, organizationally, one becomes less afraid to “release early, release often”. And that’s what we describe in this article—making rollouts as easy and as automated as possible. When a “green” condition is detected, we can more quickly perform a new rollout. Humans are still needed somewhere in the loop, but we strive to reduce the purely mechanical toil they need to perform.
PHP Smart Analyzer (or PHPSA for short) is yet another item in a growing list of tools for PHP code static analysis. It’s in an early alpha state, but looking at the list of goals, it’s quite promising.
If that’s up your valley, have a look also at PHPQA and PHPStan, which I wrote about earlier.
Here are some exciting news from the BitBucket Pipelines blog: Bitbucket Pipelines now supports building Docker images, and service containers for database testing.
We developed Pipelines to enable teams to test and deploy software faster, using Docker containers to manage their build environment. Now we’re adding advanced Docker support – building Docker images, and Service containers for database testing.
