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“Unit Testing \u2013 The Big Picture<\/a>” is a super useful for those of us who need a refresher or an overview of what software testing is in general, and how unit testing relates to other types of testing in particular.\u00a0 It covers a bit of history of testing, different approaches, terminology, and more.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

“Unit Testing \u2013 The Big Picture” is a super useful for those of us who need a refresher or an overview of what software testing is in general, and how unit testing relates to other types of testing in particular.\u00a0 It covers a bit of history of testing, different approaches, terminology, and more.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Unit Testing \u2013 The Big Picture #WebDev #PHP #QA #testing #history","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62,1334],"tags":[3069,286,38,3074,1108,1330],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-28540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-best-practices","tag-history","tag-php","tag-quality-assurance","tag-testing","tag-web-development"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21825,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/17\/jest-painless-javascript-unit-testing\/","url_meta":{"origin":28540,"position":0},"title":"jest – painless JavaScript unit testing","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 17, 2014","format":"link","excerpt":"jest - painless JavaScript unit testing","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":22151,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/08\/testframeworkinatweet-php-a-php-unit-testing-framework-in-a-tweet\/","url_meta":{"origin":28540,"position":1},"title":"TestFrameworkInATweet.php – a PHP unit testing framework in a tweet","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 8, 2014","format":"link","excerpt":"TestFrameworkInATweet.php - a PHP unit testing framework in a tweet. \u00a0This is brilliant in its own way. \u00a0It reminds me of the Perl Golf Apocalypse.","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":28455,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/26\/atoum-modern-simple-and-intuitive-php-unit-testing-framework\/","url_meta":{"origin":28540,"position":2},"title":"atoum – modern, simple and intuitive PHP unit testing framework","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"With all the hype around the quality assurance and testing tools for PHP, I wonder how did I miss atoum.\u00a0 Atoum is a modern, simple and intuitive unit testing framework for PHP.\u00a0 From a quick look around, it seems to be a lot simpler than PHPUnit and I definitely need\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":21693,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/24\/sauce-labs-selenium-testing-mobile-testing-javascript-unit-testing-and-more\/","url_meta":{"origin":28540,"position":3},"title":"Sauce Labs – Selenium Testing, Mobile Testing, JavaScript Unit Testing and More","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 24, 2014","format":"link","excerpt":"Sauce Labs - Selenium testing, mobile testing, JavaScript unit testing and more","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":28452,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/26\/kitab-documentation-rendering-and-testing-tool-for-php\/","url_meta":{"origin":28540,"position":4},"title":"Kitab – documentation rendering and testing tool for PHP","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Kitab is a handy tool for PHP developers that helps with two things: Render static HTML (with added search) from the doc-blocks in source code. 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