Rethink your PHP Testing with PEST by James Seconde

One of the reasons that PHP Developers give for not doing TDD (Test-Driven Development) is that it takes a lot of time to learn. This is a fair reason: doing TDD with PHPUnit can be quite difficult, and doing things like mocking / using doubles can get very complex if you are using a Web Application Framework such as Symfony or Laravel.

Enter PEST: a new Open Source testing framework with its own code style. Built by one of the Laravel core team, it takes much of its structure from the Jest JavaScript testing framework. Its focus is on human-readable, simple yet powerful code to make testing a delight.

In this session, we'll learn:

• How PEST is structured
• How to write tests for common scenarios
• How to use PEST on your existing code