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:Author: 		Kore Nordmann
:Date:			Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:00:14 +0100
:Revision: 		7
:Copyright:		All rights reserved


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Testable Code and SOLID at PHPBNL
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:Description:
    PHPBenelux was, as usual, the first conference of the year and, also as
    usual, it was a really great conference. As a 3rd "usual" thing, I did a
    tutorial and a talk there: On how to write *Testable Code* and to *Make
    Your Project SOLID* by applying these 5 fundamental principles of object
    oriented design to your code.

:Abstract:
    PHPBenelux__ was, as usual, the first conference of the year and, also as
    usual, it was a really great conference. As a 3rd "usual" thing, I did a
    tutorial and a talk there: On how to write *Testable Code* and to *Make
    Your Project SOLID* by applying these 5 fundamental principles of object
    oriented design to your code.

__ http://conference.phpbenelux.eu/2013/

:Keywords:
     automated testing, php, object oriented design, best practices,
     conference, talks, presentations, php benelux

This weekend PHPBenelux__ took place in Antwerp, Belgium and Qafoo was part of
this experience again. It is usually the first conference of the year and the
organizers managed to create a remarkable event.

__ http://conference.phpbenelux.eu/2013/

I did a tutorial together with Benjamin on Friday and a talk on Saturday. The
topics were how to write *Testable Code* and to *Make Your Project SOLID* by
applying these 5 fundamental principles of object oriented design to your code.

.. image:: /talks/13_01_phpbnl_testable_code_screen.png
   :target: /talks/13_01_phpbnl_testable_code.pdf
   :width:  150px
   :height: 112px
   :alt:    Testable Code
   :align:  left

On Friday Benjamin and me gave a three hours workshop on `Testable Code`__. To
get people settled and connected to the topic we started with a dot sticking
survey. As we realized that quite big fraction of attendees not having written
tests with PHPUnit before, we inserted a short crash course offhand before
starting with the real content.

__ /talks/13_01_phpbnl_testable_code.pdf

After an introduction on reaons for testing your code and the typical
approaches to this, we presented four of the most essential issues PHP
developers have when approaching unit tests and showed how those can be fixed
in the code.

Because practicing personally is a highly more effective way of learning than
classroom style teaching is, the attendees paired in groups of two and put
about 1.5 hours of work on a code kata after the lecturing. Of course three hours
is a really short time to handle the topic exhaustively. To achieve that, a
longer `training on automated testing`__ is needed. However, I had the
impression that we gave the audience a good introduction into the topic, which
can deal for further research and practice.

__ /services/training/topics/automated_testing_php

.. note::
       Contact__ us about an `individual training`__ for your development team
       on topics like object oriented design, testing, continuous integration,
       performance testing, profiling and more.

__ /contact.html
__ /services/training.html

.. image:: /talks/13_01_phpbnl_make_your_project_solid_screen.png
   :target: /talks/13_01_phpbnl_make_your_project_solid.pdf
   :width:  150px
   :height: 112px
   :alt:    Make Your Project SOLID!
   :align:  left

My `Make Your Project SOLID`__ presentation, which I gave Saturday morning, was
kinda related to this, since testability and good object oriented design go
hand in hand.  Raffling an ElePHPant to the attendee who finds the intentional
fundamental issue in the presentation occasionally helped to keep people
concentrated for a full hour. I was quite happy to see Anthony__ - advocator of
SOLID principles himself - among the crowd and get positive feedback for the
talk from him afterwards.

__ /talks/13_01_phpbnl_make_your_project_solid.pdf 
__ http://blog.ircmaxell.com/

Although PHPBenelux is still running at the time of writing, I already want to
thank the organizers of PHPBenelux for their great efforts for creating another
awesome conference. It worked out really well once again. Also, I want to
thank all of the attendees and speakers for creating the typical great
atmosphere.


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