Kommunikation agilen Teams& Introduction to PHPUnit & integration XDebug bridge

First we will have the talk to & https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/Webdeveloper-Stammtisch-Saar/events/254794851/

Afterwards the following talk will start (around 7pm)

How to test an application? How to be sure the features we need will not become damaged by some further developments?

These are some perpetual questions during the development step of a project, and we need automated tests to solve the point.
During this meetup, we will see an introduction of PHPUnit, one of the most used testing framework in the PHP landscape. Initially developed by Sebastian Bergmann to be employed as a unit testing tool, it's become a core system for the unit, functional and acceptance testing operated by other frameworks.

PHPUnit is designed to deal with in/out assertions, data providing, and test lifecycle. Also, the built-in test suites is an attribute favor a feature organization. Those features are the fundamental of PHPUnit and, will be shown throughout the presentation, but it's not the only power of PHPUnit.

For risk management and code complexity overview, PHPUnit will be able to integrate an XDebug bridge. It's where PHPUnit become interesting.
The principal objective for an application, becoming heavier each day is to be simple to handle for the development team. And with the integrated code coverage sniffer, the framework will offer to the developer some code quality metrics, allowing to understand when a to refactor is needed.

The speaker of the evening is Matthieu Vallance. Actual PHP developer, my passion for the development started when he was a teenager. His earliest language was naturally the C, an arduous one to begin with but so useful for the understanding. After some little projects, he wanted to have faster results so switch let's to PHP.
Starting professional work by creating websites for small companies, with a non-profit organization he followed an adult training to become graduated and was spotted by a startup in Luxembourg.
After this project, Matthieu started to work as a PHP consultant. Currently he is working for the Vesperia group in Luxembourg, as a Symfony specialist, a Docker coach and a PHP/Symfony teacher for a Luxembourg numeric school.
His professional hobby is to work with RESTFull APIs and event distributed server architectures.