Re: Poll: phpt or phpunit and why?
| From: | Eric Butera | Date: | Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:20:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Poll: phpt or phpunit and why? | ||
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On Feb 6, 2008 1:32 PM, Nathan Nobbe <quickshiftin@gmail.com> wrote:
> in a conversation on #gentoo-php (irc), the following distinction
> was drawn,
>
> " back on the phpt; just curious, how do you see it compared to something
> like phpunit ?
> comparable, or different.."
>
> " different... phpt is probably really mostly intended for testing php and
> their extensions
> phpunit rather for testing code written in php"
>
> -nathan
>
This might be of interest:
http://talks.somabo.de/200703_montreal_need_for_testing.pdf
You can also see his other talks here: http://talks.somabo.de/
Right now I use Simpletest because I'm heavily invested in it.
PHPUnit is looking better every day though... :)