Re: PHPUnit under the umbrella of PHP for GSoC

Hi Sebasitian, On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Sebastian Bergmann <sb@sebastian-bergmann.de> wrote: > Last year PHPUnit participated in the GSoC under the umbrella of PHP. Is > this possible this year as well? > > I discussed this issue with Marcus and Chris DiBona at the mentor summit > and the consensus was that PHPUnit by itself is too small to participate > as a mentoring organization and that PHPUnit should continue to "take > away" a slot from PHP. I don't think it is fair in regard of the other PHP unit tests project. PHPUnit already has a high visibility. > One of the ideas [1] is to implement a parser for gcov data files in PHP > to integrate the code coverage information for PHP and PHP extensions > into PHPUnit's code coverage report. This could be helpful for > developers that write both C-level and PHP-level code for their PHP > applications. To add generic testing features to PHP that can be used by any PHP projects or tests framework sounds like a great idea. Cheers, -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org