Written by Matthias Noback
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on Aug. 19, 2021
Several years ago, when the PHP-FIG (PHP Framework Interop Group) created its first PSRs (PHP Standard Recommendations) they started some big changes in the PHP ecosystem. The standard for class auto-loading was created to go hand-in-hand with the then new package manager Composer. PSRs for coding…
Written by Matthias Noback
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on Jun. 15, 2021
TLDR; Rector - The Power of Automated Refactoring is now 100% completed Tomas Votruba and I first met a couple of years ago at one of my favorite conferences; the Dutch PHP Conference in Amsterdam (so actually, we're very close to our anniversary, Tomas!). He presented Rector there and it was reall…
Written by Matthias Noback
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on May. 31, 2021
@ediar asked me on Twitter if I still think a constructor should not be tested. It depends on the type of object you're working with, so I think it'll be useful to elaborate here. Would you test the constructor of a service that just gets some dependencies injected? No. You'll test the behavior of…
Written by Matthias Noback
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on May. 17, 2021
In October 2020 I asked Tomáš Votruba, the mastermind behind Rector, if we could have a little chat about this tool. I wanted to learn more about it and had spent a couple of days experimenting with it. Tomáš answered all my questions, which was tremendously valuable to me personally. When this hap…
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on Mar. 8, 2021
I recently heard this interesting question: if your project uses a static analysis tool like PHPStan or Psalm (as it should), should the tests by analysed too? The first thing to consider: what are potential reasons for not analysing your test code? Why not? 1. Tests are messy in terms of types Tes…
Written by Matthias Noback
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on Mar. 4, 2021
This article is an excerpt from my book Advanced Web Application Architecture. It contains a couple of sections from the conclusion of Part I: Decoupling from infrastructure. This chapter covers: A deeper discussion on the distinction between core and infrastructure code A summary of the strategy…