Recently I had given the opportunity to learn Python. I had been PHPing for at least 12 years now and honestly I love PHP. Needless to say, I wasn’t looking [ … ]

Automated testing in an agency? What? No one will buy into this…. You’re right. No one will, in the traditional sense. But if we analyse, the only reason why the [ … ]

Controversial subject? Excellent. Believe it or not, I’ve had situations which warrant private method / property testing. I believe the classic argument against this is “A private method is an [ … ]

How should one organise themselves within a team? I’ve been contracting for a long time, which means embedding in a team quickly, making adjustments and start delivering. The core skill [ … ]

BDD scripts are hard to maintain. Through out my career i’ve seen dozens of suites all plagued by various but similar problems. They are slow, bulky and follow long winded [ … ]

There are a few different tools in your arsenal when it comes to increasing performance of your test suite. But instead of trying out different things it is best to [ … ]

These days PHP is mainly used to deliver API’s that feed a front end application rather than server side rendered web apps. But that does not mean you necessarily have [ … ]