PHP Hampshire February 2019

Our February meetup. Agenda:

19:00 Arrival with pizza sponsored by Efficio Consulting
19:30 Welcome announcement
19:35 Talk by Rob Waller
20:35 Closing notes
20:45 Social at Brewhouse Pompey

Talk: Test to Break Principles — (by Rob Waller)

There are two types of tests developers can write, ‘test to work’ and ‘test to break’ and both are essential to produce good software. This talk delves into the importance of test to break principles, which are used widely in other industries, to show how they improve code and product quality.

The talk highlights the importance of tests, why developers should spend more time on tests, and how test to break principles generate more robust applications.

The talk also:

• Explains the difference between tests which help applications to function and tests which aim to break and stress business logic so applications do not fail.
• Includes code demos that show how test to break principles work in practice.
• Draws comparisons to other industries, such as the car industry, who have used test to break methodologies to drive product improvement and safety for decades.
• Shows how test to break principles deal with the 'working software myth' and help developers overcome the 'ignorance / complexity' problem.
• Highlights how test to break principles force developers to introduce logic to handle unexpected behaviour and write code that can only be used in one way.

Sponsors:
Spectrum IT - Spectrum IT Recruitment is a collaboration of over 10 years recruitment experience, providing recruitment services and consultancy to the IT sector UK wide.

Efficio Consulting - Efficio Consulting help organisations reduce costs, improve internal processes and upskill their procurement teams so that they can realise cost savings faster.

JetBrains PhpStorm - PhpStorm keeps up with latest PHP & web languages trends, integrates a variety of modern tools, and brings even more extensibility with support for major PHP frameworks.