phpruntests - GSoC report 1

Hello world, I'd like to take my chance to introduce myself in a short way. My name is Georg Gradwohl, 25, studying Software Engineering at the UT Vienna (Austria). Since about two weeks I'm working on the runtests-project, which has the main goal to improve the performance and maintainability of the automatic test-execution. I had a very warm welcome in the php-community, especially by my mentors Zoe and Stefan. So I'm very happy to be on board and looking forward to a great soc 2009. :) As requested, I'd like to give you a short report about my first two weeks: Completed topics: - Setting up the needed environment - Getting familiar with the required tools, writing a few examples for that purpose. - Getting granular on the current runtests-script and the existing prototype. - Implemented a version-check to ensure that the script is executed by and testing an php-executable which is version 5.3 or higher. Next steps: - Implementing the "file-external"-section It seems that I'm the first one writing this report - so if I have missed anything essential, please let me know. Regards from Vienna, georg