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copied!<p>On a past project, I've used the PHPUnit, and it has left me wanting. PHPUnit + Command line running of the tests, made it so that too much time was spent coding the tests, wasn't fast enough, and really seemed to constrain the style of the code in a way that I didn't like (Objects were easier to test, so it seemed to kinda favor objects).</p> <p>Selenium was a solution that we talked about but never got around to getting into play, and I think we would really have benefited from that kind of output-level testing.</p> <p>On this latest project, the lead programmer has taken a more functional programming approach as we've been revising software. When I mentioned that I'd like to code via TDD, he whipped up a custom solution in a day or less that I consider to have been as effective for me to use as PHPUnit. In addition, he really opened my eyes about the question of Object Oriented vs. Functional Programming.</p> <p>First project, started from scratch, in at the ground floor, Object Oriented coding, large Unit Testing Framework, it became monolithic and bogged down quickly. Second project, well established CMS software with a 5 year history and old code, yet a functional programming paradigm and a simple testing framework (we actually often made use of php assert) made it get simpler instead of grow in complexity.</p> <p>The second project, too, never got to the point of implementing Selenium (and I still think it would be beneficial), but the functional programming approach made it easier to deal with in-code testing.</p>

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