All of my posts related to PestPHP, the elegant PHP testing framework. With a focus on simplicity, it is meticulously designed to bring back the joy of testing in PHP.
Packages
I'm happy to announce that Profanify now has support for the Dutch language, thanks to Stanley Kinkelaar! Dutch means that Profanify now supports 5 languages, with plenty more to go! Support is available for: * English * Italian * Arabic * Portuguese * Dutch If you don't know what Profanify is,
Development
It's been a couple of months since I first released Profanify, the Profanity checker for PestPHP. If you want to read the launch post, then you can check that out here: Announcing ProfanifyThis weekend, I decided to work on a new plugin for PestPHP. If you don’t
PestPHP
Now that LarcaonUS is over for another year, it's time to look forward to the release of some of the stuff that was shown off. One of those things was v3 of PestPHP. Nuno Maduro did a fantastic job of showing off what's coming to PestPHP
Development
This weekend, I decided to work on a new plugin for PestPHP. If you don't already know, PestPHP is one of my absolute favourite tools. I use it on a pretty much daily basis and I love working with it, whether it be adding new Expectations to the
Development
I launched Lawman earlier this year to make it easy to bring the joy or PestPHP architecture testing, to SaloonPHP. I've just seen that it's gotten past it's first 1000 downloads, which I'm really pleased about! Lawman scratched my own itch as
Speaking
At work, every 6 months, we rent a theatre and all of our Engineering group get together for a day of talks, food and just hanging out. It's a big group, spread out all across the country, so it's great that we can have these days
Development
You may have guessed that I'm a big fan of PestPHP and one of the biggest things I love about it is how easy it is to run your tests in parallel, by simple passing --paralell flag into your run command. You can specify the number of processes
General
Last month, I launched my latest package, Lawman which is a PestPHP plugin for SaloonPHP. It recently got a handful of extra attention thanks to being featured on Laravel News. This is fantastic because not only does it get the word of Lawman out there a bit more, it also
Development
So SaloonPHP received a new plugin this week! The plugin is called Lawman and well, actually, it's a PestPHP plugin for SaloonPHP. Saloon and Pest are two of the PHP libraries that I used on a daily basis, and I thought it was about time they met each
Development
PestPHP has had the toBeEnum() Expectation for a while now and is great to ensure your Enums are, well, Enums. I wanted to take this Expectation one step further though and introduce a way of checking that Enums are either string backed or int backed. Introducing 2 new Expectations for
Development
I added another Expectation to PestPHP recently! I'd like to introduce the isUrl() Expectation. As you may have guessed, it's to check that a given value is a valid URL. Behind the scenes, the code is super simple and makes use of the handy FILTER_VALIDATE_
Development
This week in my free time, I've been working on a new Expectation for PestPHP which allows you to check whether a value, is between 2 other values. The Expectation works with int, float and DateTime types, and can be used like so: // Int expect(2)->