Qafoo GmbH - passion for software quality
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- Behavior Driven Development

  While unit, integration and system tests - especially the methodology of
  Test Driven Development (TDD) -  are great ways to push the technical
  correctness of an application forward, they miss out one important aspect:
  the customer. None of these methods verify that developers actually
  implement what the customer desires. Behavior Driven Development (BDD) can
  help to bridge this gap.

- Confoo: Testing, Performance, Metrics and APIs

  Kore and me are currently attending Confoo in Montreal (Canada), one of the
  largest and a really awesome conference on web technologies. With our talks,
  we shared some of the Qafoo knowledge on Building Testable PHP Applications,
  Continuous Performance Testing, Understand and use software metrics and
  Designing Beautiful APIs. Find our slides for download here.

- Coding in Katas

  In almost any kind of sports you hone your skills by repeating a small piece
  of practice over and over again. Pretty much the same works for learning to
  play a musical instrument. The idea of Code Katas applies this simple, but
  for many aspects effective, method of exercise to the world of programming.

- Speaking at ConFoo.ca 2013 in Montreal

  By the end of the month, ConFoo.ca Web Techno Conference will take place
  again in in Montreal Canada. Qafoo experts are part of this outstanding
  experience for several years and will be again from February 25th to March
  1st 2013. This year, Kore and Toby will be on-site to share a bit of Qafoo
  experience with you on the following topics.

- Testable Code and SOLID at PHPBNL

  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.

- Black Magic with Regular Expressions

  We are happy to announce the availability of my second Regular Expression
  webinar recording.It was a fun event, which I used to explain all the
  attendees a little bit more about the PCRE Regular Expression engine
  available in PHP and some other languages. I am covering some slightly
  advanced topics, like subpattern options, unicode and backtracking aka.
  greediness and performance.

- Benjamin Eberlei Joins Qafoo

  Today we are happy to announce that Benjamin Eberlei will join the Qafoo
  family as a consultant and trainer in the beginning of 2013. Benjamin is
  lead developer of the Doctrine project, part of the Symfony 2 community,
  well known speaker and trainer. Beside that, he is an expert in software
  architecture and design, especially in the area of business logic modelling.

- Code Review Tool

  We, at Qafoo, do Code Reviews quite often together with our customers. This
  often focusses on dicussing metrics, browsing the associated code and
  discussing solutions for the issues found. We started using a bunch of shell
  scripts for that, like everyone else, but at some point we came up with a
  webinterface to do this in a more comfortable way. Now we want to share this
  tool with you.

- Abstract Classes vs. Interfaces

  Features of object oriented languages are often use from a purely technical
  perspective, without respect to their actual semantics. This is fine as long
  as it works for you, but might lead to problems in the long run. In this
  article I discuss the semantical differences between abstract classes and
  interfaces. I also outline why following the semantics of those language
  constructs can lead to better code.

- Browser SOA / HTTP Debugger

  Did you ever try to debug a system with multiple interacting web services?
  We just released a tool, which we developed internally to be able to debug
  complex HTTP based SOA stacks (REST). It offers the same listening
  capabilities like Wireshark, but displays the HTTP requests in a far more
  readable way and makes it easy to reproduce single requests. Read more…