Wait a minute! How can you possibly code faster when in fact you have to write more code? Test Driven Development requires additional (redundant?!) classes which only duplicates work. The “redundant” code has to be maintained and kept in sync with the main software. It might be good for some big companies (preferably at the other end of the world) but not for us. We all heard that.
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For the last few years I’ve been using virtual machine to keep my dev Linux isolated from my desktop. Recently I decided to improve my test driven development by integrating PHPUnit with Eclipse. I didn’t want to waste time on switching between IDE and console to run a test. The challenge is to create an external tool which will SSH into the remote server, run tests and feedback to Eclipse. In fact this method lets you do anything on the remote server, not only unit test.
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A new project created by the ZF command line tool (zf) will have a default IndexControllerTest in the tests folder. The test class inherits from Zend_Test_PHPUnit_ControllerTestCaseand provides a good example of how to test a controller.
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