About 18 months ago I started to dabble with unit testing within PHP, I first looked at simpletest before ultimately settling with PHPUnit. I was a little cautious at first, primarily concerned with the amount of time writing the tests were taking and maintenance of said tests, but soon realised their full potential.

It’s safe to say now I couldn’t really imagine developing anything of significant size without them, and I just simply havn’t yet come across any argument which can go anyway to persuading me otherwise.
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