2008/5/10 robert mena <robert.mena@xxxxxxxxx>: > I am looking for tips regarding improving the development process. I'll > explain my current setup and please feel free to comment. > > My developers all use windows + eclipse PDT, the workspace is hosted (via > samba) in a Linux server with Apache/PHP/MySQL. I am in the process of > adopting Unit testing (PHPUnit2) and debug (Xdebug) so I have concerns about > how to property use this. > > For example, in my current setup I'd have to enable SSH so they could run > the tests from the command line in the development server, but I am not sure > if I could remotely use Xdebug. Your description (specifically, Samba) suggests that you're not using source control. If you want to go for TDD (I don't know that you do, but IMO it's a good direction to move in) I would suggest a three-server setup - dev, staging and live. The dev server(s) are where you work. One per developer. Once you're happy with your code and your tests, you commit your changes to source control. This is where it gets clever. You can use pre- and post-commit hooks to run an automated build process that pushes the changes to a staging server, automatically runs the unit tests, and accepts/rejects the commits based on the test results. You can even lint the code, and reject anything that isn't in the house style. With larger projects, where an entire publish-and-test on each commit becomes impractical, you can just run the build process and unit tests every n hours, and mail out the results. Publishing to the live server is simply a matter of running the build scripts with a different destination. On top of all that, run an issue tracker. /Everything/ goes in the issue tracker, bugs, features, whatever. When you make a commit, that commit should be closing an issue in the issue tracker (via commit hooks again). That way you can track each change that's been made back to its reason. All of this is opinion, of course, there's no Right Way. Just take what's useful to you. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
