Don’t let QA be a bottleneck
Not every company can have a “move fast and break things” attitude. In fact, even Zuckerberg, who installed this as a mantra at Facebook in
Testing
Running PHPUnit with PHPStorm
When writing tests, I often find myself switching between the IDE and terminal windows to actually run the tests. On projects with very large test
Building an SDK with PHP, part 3: Making it testable
This post is part 3 of the “Building an SDK with PHP” series. Read Part 1 and Part 2 In our last article we’ve
Ten years of testing htaccess rewrite rules
A little over ten years ago, I felt so annoyed with testing Apache’s mod_rewrite RewriteRules that I started looking for a tool to
Cypress or how I learned to stop worrying and love E2E
Over my career I’ve dabbled in various forms of testing, both on the backend and front-end. I’ve tried various frameworks and experimented
Pulse: Episode 3 - Between Us - PHP
On this episode of madewithlove’s Pulse podcast, Vinch Battaglia, CTO in residence, welcomes Wouter Sioen, software engineer, and Jonas Drieghe, software engineer, all members
Snapshot through the heart
While snapshot testing has been around for a while in the form of visual snapshots (used in visual regression testing), it’s clear that the
What we talk about when we talk about testing
Imagine if airplane companies never tested their airplanes. They just ship them when they’re done. Would you feel safe boarding a plane like that?
Our htaccess tester tool has new features
Writing .htaccess files can be an annoying task. There’s a lot written about it, but it remains a hard topic to get right, especially
How to be an asshole when testing bugs
Ugh… I can’t believe it! How did he find that? This is my goal when I test for bugs. I want to find the
Stop managing your releases before you start managing your releases
It’s Friday afternoon. Do you deploy to production? A lot of teams are afraid to push their code to production before the weekend because
Using MySQL for Testing (on Laravel)
We have a really good testing culture at madewithlove and, in one of the projects I am working on, we have a decent suite of
Refactoring towards testability
When working on a legacy codebase, you often have to make changes in code you don’t fully understand. When this code is not tested,
Commands, events, global functions and testing
The other day I was listening to the FullStackRadio episode 34 which is about dealing with dependencies in Active Record models. This is a very
Updated htaccess tester: referrer support
We just updated our htaccess tester to support the HTTP_REFERER variable in your rewrite rules. To do so we simply added a new field