February 26-28, 2014
Montreal, Canada
Getting Fixtures Right
Every kind of automated test requires you to create fixtures. Be it the input objects to unit test a method, setting up an object structure for integration testing or creating a database for system tests. But what makes a good fixture? In this talk we dive through the variety of automated test approaches and show fixtures can be created, what principles you should obey to and techniques to avoid pitfalls.
Tobias Schlitt
Tobias Schlitt, a web developer since 1996, has been at the forefront of PHP since 2000. As a co-founder of Qafoo, he honed in on PHP software quality & architecture for a decade. Later, he co-launched Frontastic, which transitioned to commercetools Frontend in 2022. Now a principal engineer overseeing 25+ engineers, Tobias champions software that meets business needs and advocates for inclusion & mental health. https://schlitt.info.
Montreal 2014 sponsored by
