PHPUnit is not difficult to set up and writing tests with it is easy. But with the the tips and tricks you will learn in this session you can leverage PHPUnit more effectively, giving you better results and increasing your productivity.

When you continuously develop new features and deploy new code to production frequently, quality must not be an afterthought. This presentation will elucidate how agility and quality are connected and what this should mean for the architecture of your software.

It is a fact of life for every developer: you have to deal with code that has been written before your time, that does not follow state-of-the-art best practices, and that — worst of all — is not tested so you cannot safely change or extend it. In this session, the audience will witness the step-by-step refactoring of fictitious legacy code towards a state that is easy to comprehend, extend, test, and maintain.

When you say "PHP" you mean the programming language PHP. This implicitly refers to the PHP Interpreter that is developed by the PHP project and that can be downloaded from PHP.net. Aside from this reference implementation of PHP there are alternative runtime environments for PHP, such as Facebook's HipHop. This session presents an overview of these alternatives and provides an insight into their feasability for production use.

Today’s web applications require frequent updates, not just by adding or upgrading features, but by maintaining and improving the software’s existing code base as well. This tutorial teaches PHP developers how to use Jenkins, the popular continuous integration server, to monitor various aspects of software quality throughout a project’s lifecycle. Attendees of this tutorial will learn how to implement continuous integration to automate processes for building and deploying regular software releases. They will also learn how to use Jenkins to monitor and improve their applications through continuous inspection and static code analysis.

Various testing tools exist to test the different aspects and layers of PHP applications. There is PHPUnit for Unit Testing (and Test-Driven Development), Behat for Acceptance Testing (and Behaviour-Driven Development), Selenium for System Testing, and a plethora of tools for testing non-functional aspects such as performance and security. This presentation provides an overview of the goals of each of these tools and shows the first steps to leveraging them in your daily routine.