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    <p>There are at least two mature, stand-alone, JUnit style test suites available, named <a href="http://www.phpunit.de/" rel="noreferrer">PHPUnit</a> and <a href="http://www.simpletest.org/" rel="noreferrer">SimpleTest</a>, respectively. </p> <p>As far the MVC Frameworks go, Symfony has its own testing framework named <a href="http://www.symfony-project.org/book/1_0/15-Unit-and-Functional-Testing" rel="noreferrer">lime</a>, Code Igniter has a <a href="http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/unit_testing.html" rel="noreferrer">unit_test</a> library and <a href="http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/testing-models-with-cakephp-1-2-test-suite" rel="noreferrer">CakePHP</a> relies on the aforementioned SimpleTest. </p> <p>I know that Zend Studio has built in support for PHPUnit tests, and both PHPUnit and SimpleTest have command-line runners so integration into any workflow is possible.</p> <p>The tools are there in the PHP world if a developer wants to take advantage of them, and smart shops do take advantage of them.</p> <p>The caveats are your par for the course PHP complaints. There are two PHP communities; PHP as a platform for building software, and PHP as a way to interact with a web server, web browser, and database to produce application-like things on the web. It's less a black and white thing and more a continuum; Among those more on the software developer side unit testing and TDD is supported and used as much as it is on any other platform. Among the "cobble together a bunch of stuff I don't understand but still get results people", it's unheard of.</p> <p>There's a lot of non-framework/custom-framework legacy PHP code around that's difficult to get a useful test harness around. PHP also lends itself easily to patterns that rely on the existence of a browser environment to run. I don't have any evidence to back this up other than my own observations, but a lot of PHP shops that care about testing end up relying on acceptance testing (i.e. Selenium) as a substitute for actual Unit Testing, test-first, etc. development.</p> <p>In your specific situation, interview the hell out of the developer your group is going to hire. </p> <ol> <li><p>Ask them what unit testing framework they use</p></li> <li><p>Ask them to describe, in general terms, a real world example of a time they developed a new feature and its supporting tests</p></li> <li><p>Ask them to describe, in general terms, a real world example of a time their tests failed and what they did to resolve the situation </p></li> </ol> <p>You're less interested in the specific situation they're going to describe and more interested in how comfortable they are discussing their knowledge of code testing in general. </p>
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