QA in PHP

The map above contains the following tools that are useful for quality assurance in PHP projects:

• PHP_CodeSniffer tokenises PHP, JavaScript and CSS files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards.
• phpmd scans PHP source code and looks for potential problems such as possible bugs, suboptimal code or overcomplicated expressions.
• phpcpd is a Copy/Paste Detector (CPD) for PHP code.
• PHP_Depend is a PHP software metrics tool.
• PHPUnit is the de-facto standard unit test framework for PHP.

Build Automation is the act of scripting or automating a wide variety of tasks that a software developer will do in their day-to-day activities, including tasks that involve the tools listed above.

Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool that is similar to make, but without make's wrinkles. Its build files are XML-based, calling out a target tree where various tasks get executed.

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Eduardo R. Coll