\nI am pretty happy with myself – in the past five years – I have learned the importance of unit testing. Here I am hacking at my NG LMS based on IMS Learning Tool Interoperability – and instead of just writing a ton of code, I first spend two hours and wrote a PHP unit test framework so I could unit test all of my PHP utility code. It is pretty cool – it makes it so you don’t have to keep pressing REFRESH when you write code and also when you write debug code to exercise code – you just keep it in a unit test as well. I also wrote a PHP logging\/debugging mechanism – so I don’t have to keep printing out stuff and then commenting out the prints – the logging automatically gets verbose during unit tests.<\/p>\n
\nPart of this is that I miss Rails – I liked the fact that you could write less mainstream code and fall back on Rails conventions for stuff. Now you might ask – which not use a Rails clone like Ignitor or a bunch of others – the problem with those is that they are too big. I want something that gives me functionality with a single require_once() in my code – and that the distribution is a single or a few PHP scripts and not a BUNCH of hacking on my PHP installation. I want it clean and simple and a natural extension to basic PHP work patterns.<\/p>\n
\nSo I have progressed to understanding the importance of Unit tests but have not yet gotten to the point where I am willing to pull in a terabyte of some other framework. Ah well.<\/p>\n
\nHere is sample output:<\/p>\n
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