Many businesses and organizations depend on older high-value PHP software that risks abandonment because it is impossible to maintain. The reasons for this may be that the software is not well designed; there is only one developer (the one who created the system) who can develop it because he didn't use common design patterns and documentation; or the code is procedural, not object oriented. With this book, you'll learn to identify problem code and refactor it to create more effective applications using test-driven design.
What you'll learn
- What refactoring is and why you need to refactor code
- What test-driven design is and why you need to test your code
- How to write unit and functional tests with PHPUnit and Selenium Remote Control (RC)
- How to detect "bad smells" in PHP code, and refactor them using test-driven design
- How to refactor a large procedural application affected by many bad smells
Who is this book for?
This book is for PHP developers, businesses, and developers relying on legacy PHP apps.
About the Author
Francesco Trucchia worked some years as web engineer on small, medium and large projects for international companies. Now he is the co-founder and the CTO of ideato srl, a PHP italian company expert in web software development and agile methods. He likes to develop with XP methods (TDD, Pair Programming, KISS). He introduced these practices in ideato with a lot of positive feedback about the software life cycle process. He is specializes in web engineering, web development, ITC consultant, ITC problem solving, symfony development, PHP development, project management, xp methods, and agile processes.
Jacopo Romei is an engineer with broad interests, really passionate for business and development processes. He’s a great open standards and open source supporter. He pushes every project he is in to move towards integral agile methodologies, Extreme Programming above all. He strongly believes that domain knowledge and agile methodologies are the key for success.
Book Details
- Paperback: 360 pages
- Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (July, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1430227273
- ISBN-13: 978-1430227274
- File Size: 5.7 MiB
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