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MATT ZANDSTRA, PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1996-6_21

21. Continuous Integration

Matt Zandstra

(1)Liverpool, Merseyside, UK

In previous chapters, you’ve seen a plethora of tools that are designed to support a well-managed project. Unit testing, documentation, build, and version control are all fantastically useful. But tools, and testing in particular, can be bothersome.

Even if your tests only take a few minutes to run, you’re often too focused on coding to bother with them. Not only that, but you have clients and colleagues waiting for new features. The temptation to keep on coding is always there. But bugs are much easier to fix close to the time they are hatched. That’s because you’re more likely ...

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