Matthew, I don't know how I missed this, it's brilliant! Great stuff, thanks a lot!
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -- Federico Cargnelutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Monday, 09 June 2008, 03:00 PM +0100): > > By reading the manual, it doesn't look like ZF is encouraging users to do > unit > > testing. I know that it's up to the developer to worry about this, but > > shouldn't the ZF encourage developers to test their classes? I'm not > talking > > about developing a unit testing framework or anything like that, you can > > communicate this by just adding: > > > > test/ > > mocks/ > > unit_tests/ > > > > to the manual: 7.1.2.1. Create your filesystem layout. Rails has been > heavily > > promoting unit testing with great results. > > > > What do you think? > > Actually, we have some initiatives in place now that _are_ encouraging > unit testing. First, we have approved (or are about to approve) a > revised directory layout: > > > http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend+Framework+Default+Project+Structure+-+Wil+Sinclair > > You will see in the proposed default application layout a 'tests' > directory at the top-level. > > Additionally, I've been working on a functional testing framework for > MVC apps, building on PHPUnit: > > > http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Controller+Testing+Infrastructure > > This work is actually mostly complete (except for documentation and one > or two CSS selector use cases), and can be found in a branch of the > repo: > > http://framework.zend.com/svn/framework/standard/branches/user/matthew/ > > We very much encourage developers to unit test and functional test their > applications to ensure quality. > > -- > Matthew Weier O'Phinney > Software Architect | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ >
