Qafoo GmbH - passion for software quality
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:Author: 		www-data
:Date:			Wed, 31 Oct 2018 10:07:55 +0100
:Copyright:		All rights reserved

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Continuous Integration & Delivery
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- Methods Of Teaching

  There are many different ways to teach topics of software developments. From
  recorded lectures to pair programming. Over the time we tried many of them
  with different customers and different topics. I want to provide you with an
  overview of what worked best for us for which topic.

- How To Refactor Without Breaking Things

  Refactoring means to change the structure of your code without changing its
  behavior. Refactoring is an essential part of everyday programming and
  should become knee-jerk for your whole development team. It is very helpful
  to cleanup feature spikes, revise earlier decisions and keep a maintainable
  code base in the long run. In a perfect project world - with extensive
  automated tests of various types - this is just a matter of getting used to.
  But there are only very few such projects, so getting into proper
  refactoring is much harder. This article will show you important tips to
  master this challenge with your team.

- Using Mink in PHPUnit

  Another day for a short PHPUnit trick. If you want to use PHPunit to control
  a browser for functional or acceptence tests, then you can easily do this
  using the Mink library. Mink is well known from the Behat community to
  facilitate Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD), but it is a standalone
  library that can be used with PHPUnit just as easily.

- Why you need infrastructure and deployment automation

  The amount of time wasted on setup, synchronization and deployment of
  applications is often ignored by teams and managers. Manual server
  management and application deployment are a huge waste of time and
  ultimately money. In addition, manual work is often prone to error and a big
  risk for uninterrupted uptime of production.Software quality does not stop
  with tests and good CodeSniffer and PHP Mess Detector scores. The deployment
  and setup is equally important to the quality of an application. From our
  experience, this is a field where many teams could still achieve huge
  productivity gains.

- Finding the right Test-Mix

  The topic of Test Driven Development (TDD) and unit-testing usually creates
  heated discussions among developers. We at Qafoo are not an exception and
  the topic how to apply TDD in our daily work regularly leads to heated
  discussions.  One reason for this is that both TDD and unit-testing combined
  are by some people seen dogmatically as the only way to do software
  development.

- Testing: Find the Sweet Spot

  How we need to craft architecture and design in order to significantly
  reduce the cost for tests. How to escape from the trap of the inner-platform
  antipattern, where we need to provide all infrastructure and business models
  with an ugly, mocked twin. Simply: How to efficiently write tests? And how
  to avoid that everyone hates them within 10 months, so that they would
  rather deactivate them instead of fixing them.