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PHPUnit 11, and the annotations that are finally gone

NoteMarch 6, 20241 min read

The 10.0 migration did the work; 11.0 removes what 10 deprecated, which makes it a two-hour upgrade. A major that only removes previously deprecated behaviour is the cheap…

PHPUnit 11, and a suite that had already been migrated

Deep diveFebruary 29, 20249 min read

11.0 in February, a year after the 10.0 migration did the hard part, and eleven deprecations that were all things 10 had warned about.

The suite that got slower because of one fixture

NoteFebruary 8, 20242 min read

A test suite that went from four minutes to eleven over six weeks, with no test added that was individually slow. A fixture that is individually reasonable and…

The test that failed only when run alone

NoteNovember 21, 20232 min read

The usual failure is a test that passes alone and fails in the suite; this was the reverse, and the reverse is more interesting. A test that depends…

Mutation testing for one directory, and what it found

Deep diveOctober 24, 202310 min read

94% line coverage on the pricing code, and a bug that shipped anyway. A test that called the method and asserted it did not throw.

Two years of deprecations, and the upgrade we could no longer defer

Deep diveJune 6, 202314 min read

PHP 8.0 reaches end of life in November and the application is on it. 4,100 deprecation notices, and a log filter that had been hiding them.

A suite that runs in four minutes because it stopped touching the database

Deep diveMay 28, 202310 min read

1,400 tests, fourteen minutes, and 1,100 of them opening a transaction against MySQL for no reason anybody could name.

Pest 2, and running both suites for a month

NoteMay 18, 20232 min read

Adopting a different test syntax on top of the same engine, evaluated properly rather than by preference. A month of writing new tests in one and maintaining old…

PHPUnit 10 is faster, and the number is smaller than claimed

NoteApril 20, 20232 min read

The release notes talk about a significant speed improvement, and on a suite dominated by database work the improvement is in the part that was never slow. The…

A data provider that must now be static

NoteApril 19, 20232 min read

PHPUnit 10 requires data providers to be static methods, which breaks any provider that touched $this. The restriction exists because providers run before the test case is set…