“Code quality tools in PHP to check and improve your code” is a list of both some very well known tools and some new kids on the block. The article covers the following:
Quality Assurance is an important part of the software development. There are many tools available that help with a variety of problems in this domain. At work, we have already been using quite a few of them – mostly those that deal with automated testing – PHPUnit, PHP CodeSniffer, Nightwatch.js, TravisCI, BitBucket Pipelines, and more.
But the above tools are mostly for software developers. With the expansion of our quality assurance efforts, I am looking at some more tools and this time around, those that are aimed more towards QA engineers and testers. One particular area that I am currently very interested in is the tool for test (and requirements) management.
My experience in this area is very limited. I just know that such tools do exist. Most of them are propitiatory and expensive, and are used by large organizations. We are not a large company. Our needs are simpler. And our budget for this is not great yet.
So, here is what I’m looking for:
If you know of a tool that matches all or most of the above, please let me know.
Continue reading Free and Open Source Test Management Software
This article (in Russian) lists a number of useful payloads (and some tools that work with them) for security testing of web applications. Below is the list of handy GitHub repositories for web server path testing, cross-site scripting, SQL injection, and several other common types of vulnerabilities. These payloads are much richer than basic hand-made tests and can help improve the security of the web application a great deal:
With all the hype around the quality assurance and testing tools for PHP, I wonder how did I miss atoum. Atoum is a modern, simple and intuitive unit testing framework for PHP. From a quick look around, it seems to be a lot simpler than PHPUnit and I definitely need to find some time to give it a go.
Also, here’s a blog post that describes how Automattic moved from PHPUnit to atoum, which makes a lot of sense (you know what I’m talking about if you ever tried to write PHPUnit tests for WordPress projects).
Kitab is a handy tool for PHP developers that helps with two things:
There are a number of tools that do the first one (phpDocumentor, Doxygen, Sami, etc). However I don’t remember seeing anything that accomplishes the second task.