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You've been doing PHP development for a while but you find yourself constantly battling bugs, finding it hard to integrate bits of code together, and staying late to do deployments. You know there is a better way through test-driven development but you have no idea where to start.

You imagine yourself sitting down with an experienced developer -- just you and them, steadily working through problems and learning how to use test-driven development to design the API's and interfaces for your code while making sure nothing leaves development until you're 100% sure it's working.

In \"Minimum Viable Tests\" long-time PHP testing evangelist Chris Hartjes starts you off with the basics on the concepts surrounding test-driven development and shows you how a long-time grumpy programmer writes application with testing always in the front of his mind. Along the way you'll learn about:

Chris' concept of \"metatesting\"
The basics of what PHPUnit is and how it works
The role of tests in the development process
Effective use of test doubles
Understanding how to mimic your application's environment via bootstrapping
Writing wrappers around web API calls to make testing easier
How fixtures and data providers help simplify your tests both today and tomorrow
When you should use (and not abuse) monkey-patching tools
The Arrange-Act-Assert test-writing strategy
How to refactor existing tests

Chris has been watching and listening to people as they start their journey towards become test-driven developers. \"Minimum Viable Tests\" is designed to be your guide on the path to having well-tested, confidently-deployed PHP applications.

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